Compiling Gnucash (was [Re: Compiling guile])

Charles Gagnon charlesg at unixrealm.com
Tue Oct 31 16:17:14 EST 2006


Has anyone compiled gnucash-2.0.2 on a Solaris 10 box (fresh install
w/ Sun's plublic domain stuff in /usr/sfw). If yes, is there a list
somewhere of what need to be compiled prior to Gnucash and in what
order?


Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:43:53PM -0500, Charles Gagnon wrote:
> hmmm... good point. There was no reason other than I had grabbed the
> latest I saw. The latest 1.6 seem to have fixed my problems. Thanks
> again Derek.
> 
> I am making no progress at all though... Solaris 10 comes with Gnome
> but not the Gnome 2 stuff... So I end-up once again with half the
> stuff in /usr/sfw (from Sun) and some self-compiled stuff in
> /usr/local.
> 
> Latest gnucash error:
> 
>   [...]
>   checking if (www main) is available... no
>   checking for gconf-2.0 >= "2.0"... sh: gnome-config: not found
>   sh: gnome-config: not found Package gconf-2.0 was not found in the
>   pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory
>   containing `gconf-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment
>   variable No package 'gconf-2.0' found
>   configure: error: Library requirements (gconf-2.0 >= "2.0") not
>   met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
>   if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can
>   find them.
> 
> Following this I tried to compile GConf-2.13.5
> 
>   [...]
>   checking for DEPENDENT... sh: gnome-config: not found
>   configure: error: Package requirements (gmodule-2.0 >= 2.7.0
>   gobject-2.0 >= 2.7.0 ORBit-2.0 >= 2.4.0) were not met.
>   Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>   installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> I am really starting to think Solaris is just NOT a good platform to
> run Gnucash. 
> 
> I am taking good notes as I go... Maybe I can drop something in the
> Wiki once I'm done assuming it's of interest.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Why don't you just stick with guile-1.6?
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Quoting Charles Gagnon <charlesg at unixrealm.com>:
> > 
> > >I am trying to compile guile on Solaris 10 so I can finaly move to
> > >gnucash-2.0.2 and it has been giving me a hard time. I tried the
> > >guile mailing list but so far, I can't seem to get myself subscribed
> > >on there. I figure someone here may know what my problem is.
> > >
> > >On Solaris 10 w/ gcc compiling guile-1.8.1 I get the following
> > >errors:
> > >
> > >gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I.. -D_REENTRANT -pthreads
> > >-g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -MT
> > >libguile_la-numbers.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libguile_la-numbers.Tpo -c
> > >numbers.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libguile_la-numbers.o
> > >numbers.c: In function `scm_log':
> > >numbers.c:6022: error: `_Complex_I' undeclared (first use in this
> > >function)
> > >numbers.c:6022: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
> > >once
> > >numbers.c:6022: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > >numbers.c: In function `scm_exp':
> > >numbers.c:6088: error: `_Complex_I' undeclared (first use in this
> > >function)
> > >make[3]: *** [libguile_la-numbers.lo] Error 1
> > >make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-1.8.1/libguile'
> > >make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> > >make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-1.8.1/libguile'
> > >make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-1.8.1'
> > >make: *** [all] Error 2
> > >
> > >I will try next with SunCC.
> > >
> > >--
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