Gnucash-2.0.5 Run Error

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Yes.
>> You need to reconfigure, rebuild, and reinstall g-wrap, and then
>> reconfigure, rebuild, and reinstall gnucash.
>
>   Well, I seem to be stuck in an infinite loop. After re-installing the
> appropriate version of slib (-3.1.1) last evening, re-creating slibcat, and
> getting everything else cleaned up and of the appropriate versions, I
> re-installed the g-wrap-1.9.6 package and tried reconfiguring gnucash-2.0.5.
> That's when this appeared unexpectedly:

I didn't say reinstall the g-wrap PACKAGE..  I said "reconfigure,
rebuild, and reinstall g-wrap"

> checking for (g-wrap gw-glib-spec) guile module... yes
> checking for SLIB support... configure: error:
>
>    Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
>    See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922
>
>   SLIB is in both /usr/local/lib/slib and in /usr/share/guile/site/slib. It
> makes no sense to me that when I fix one reported error, rebuild and
> reinstall in what should be the proper sequence, then an error that was
> previously fixed reappears.
>
>   I'm quite frustrated and discouraged. This will be put aside for now as I
> need to focus on work and actually accomplishing something.

I'd recommend you install Fedora, Debian, Gentoo, or Ubuntu because
those all come with GnuCash for you.   The amount of time you've spent
fighting slackware you could've downloaded one of these distros,
installed it, restored your homedir, and got gnucash up and running...

> Rich

-derek
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