GC checkinstall denied, make install accepted

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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Heinz-Dieter Bender <hdbender at arcor.de> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> you're right, of course, but please excuse the functionalty of my brain.
> I cannot so easily keep things in my mind, but I guess this is a normal
> procedure if you reach the age of 70.

Oh, it's okay.  I'm sorry I came off so snide.  It's just lots
of people say "it failed" without giving any information about
how it failed, so there's no way to do anything than ask for more
information.  It seems a waste of time when the initial query could
provide the failure.

> When I tried to compile GC on my PC, there was an error message indeed,
> but I didn't list it, and because I proceeded to the next step with
> "make install" I really don't recognize the error message before. 
> Shame on me.

Okay..  So you built it from source?  Or you installed it by
binary-package?

> Anyway, as a result, GC is running. 
> I only wonder why "checkinstall" couldn't make it.

I don't know.  How did checkinstall fail?

> I also wonder why I could install GC-2 in a few seconds on my notebook,
> together with hbci, which also appears in the tools menue. So that means
> there was no collision with any licences - you agree?

What distro does your notebook use?

> If you will tell me what will be the best way to add the hbci-tools on
> my PC (remove and reinstall or edit/change some files), I promise to
> list all error messages that might appear and post it here.

Well, you still haven't said what OS/Distro you use on your PC.
If you build gnucash from source, then you need to add --enable-hbci
when you run ./configure.  If you install binary packages then
the packager needs to have done that.

> Thank you in advance - hdbender

-derek

>
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.09.2006, 12:50 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins:
>> hdbender <hdbender at arcor.de> writes:
>> 
>> > After having many problems to install GC-2 on my PC (see my thread before), I
>> > tried to compile it myself, using checkinstall, but without success.
>> > When using make install the installation was completed, and GC is running
>> > well, (not the banking tool). How comes?
>> 
>> *Looks into his crystal ball to divine how it failed for you*  Nope,
>> not getting anything.  Damn, I really need to work on my divination
>> skills.  You know, it would help if you actually sent in the
>> FAILURE, like maybe showing the errors you get when you try
>> to build it?   Keep in mind that "checkinstall" isn't our beast,
>> so if the code builds on it's own then it's quite possibly a
>> bug in checkinstall, so you might want to contact your distribution
>> for help on that.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> -derek

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