configure gnucash 2.2.9

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting gillian <gillianb at westnet.com.au>:

> Hi,
>
> I have just upgraded my system from Centos 4.x to Centos 5.2. In 
> doing so, I am upgrading my version of gnucash. I have been using it 
> for a few years, and it is a wonderful app, thank you so much for 
> your continued efforts in it's maintenance! Applogies is this is 
> mentioned on the mailing list, but a search has not located any other 
> similar threads.
>
> I have installed guile 1.8.4 (rpm), have slib installed as part of 
> the umb-scheme rpm, but am having issues configuring gnucash with 
> these other apps.
>
> It doesn't seem to be able to find slib.  The error I get is:
> configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
> checking for guile... /usr/local/bin/guile
> checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.0
> checking for guile - 1.8.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.0
> 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
>
> And yet a locate for slib shows :
>
> /usr/lib/umb-scheme/slib
>
> which I have linked to /usr/local/lib/slib
>
> any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

You might consider enabling the EPEL repositories and pulling GnuCash
from there.  There are pre-built RPMS for EL5.

> Gillian

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-derek

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