GnuCash 2.2.5 compilation problems on Ubuntu Heron

[Tony Nelson]

Hi Ron,

This worked, thank you so much for your help.

Tony

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 18:15 -0600, Ronal B Morse wrote:
> Tony, I just did this not too long ago, so it can be done.
> Unfortunately, I did not keep a step-by-step log, but like you, I found
> the process somewhat frustrating.  Ultimately, I was able to just grind
> through the missing dependencies until I got a clean compile.  
> 
> There are two slib-related packages in repository installed on my
> machine:
> 
> slib 3a4-4
> guile1.6-slib
> 
> Also, I seem to remember that installing guile-1.6 worked better than
> installing guile-1.8.  The guile-related packages I have installed are:
> 
> guile-1.6
> guile-1.6-dev
> guile-1.6-libs
> guile-1.6-slib
> libguile-ltdl-1
> lib1threads-12
> swig
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> 
> Ron Morse
> 
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:01 -0700, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have been having a heck of a time attempting to compile GnuCash 2.2.5
> > on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
> > 
> > The error I am getting matches a closed bug (483631):
> > 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
> >    and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483631
> > 
> > The fact that the bug has been closed suggests to me that the bug has
> > been fixed, but that does not seem to be the case.  
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Oh, the bug below suggests setting up a symbolic link
> > between /usr/share/slib/slibcat and /usr/share/slibcat
> > I may have messed this up, but I don't seem to have slibcat in
> > either /usr/share/slib or /usr/share.  
> > 
> > The following dependency list is from the README.dependencies file that
> > comes with the GnuCASH 2.2.5 distribution.  In many cases the library
> > name in the readme does not exactly match the library presented by
> > Ubuntu's Snaptic package manager.  In such cases I have taken a guess
> > and installed what seems to be the corresponding package.  My comments
> > are next to each dependency.
> > 
> > 
> > >From the README.dependencies:
> > Libraries/Deps
> > --------------
> > 1) aqbanking 
> >    aqbanking-tools exists (aqbanking is not offered by install manager)
> >    aqbanking-tools installed
> > 
> > 2) gconf2
> >    installed
> > 
> > 3) glib2
> >    libglib2.0-0 installed
> >    libglib2.0-dev installed
> > 
> > 4) gtk+2
> >    Lots of gtk packages available, none named "gtk+2"
> >    gtk2-engines installed   
> > 
> > 5) guile
> >     guile-1.8 installed
> >     guile-1.8-dev installed
> >     guile-1.8-libs installed
> > 
> > 6) libart2
> >     libart-2.0-2 installed
> >     libart2.0-cil installed
> >     libart-2.0-dev installed
> > 
> > 
> > 7) libglade2
> >     libglade2-0 installed
> >     libglade2-dev installed
> > 
> > 8) libgnomeprint2.2
> >     libgnomeprint2.2-0 installed
> >     libgnomeprint2.2-dev installed    
> > 
> > 9) libgnomeui2
> >     libgnomeui-0 installed
> >     libgnomeui-dev installed
> > 
> > 10) [lib]goffice
> >     libgoffice-0-4 installed
> >     libgoffice-0-dev installed
> >     
> > 11) libgsf1
> >     libgsf-1-114 installed
> >     libgsf-1-dev installed
> > 
> > 12) [lib]gtkhtml3
> >     gtkhtml3.14-19 installed
> >     gtkhtml3.14-dev installed    
> > 
> > 13) libofx
> >     libofx4 installed
> >     libofx-dev installed     
> > 
> > 14) libxml2
> >     libxml2 installed
> >     libxml2-dev installed    
> > 
> > 15) pango
> >     libpango1.0-0 installed
> >     libpango1.0-dev installed
> > 
> > 16) swig
> >     swig installed
> > 
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