failing to run gnucash 2.4 on MacOSX Leopard (10.5.8)

[Johann George]

John,

Thanks much.  I'll look forward to trying it out.

Johann


On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:28 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Dec 24, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Johann George wrote:
>
> > I've just downloaded the latest gnucash 2.4 for MacOSX and am attempting
> to
> > run it on Leopard (10.5.8) and get the following error:
> >
> > Dyld Error Message:
> > Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libltdl.3.dylib
> > Referenced from:
> > /Volumes/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.0/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin
> > Reason: image not found
> >
> > I also tried it on Snow Leopard (10.6.5) and it seems to run without
> > complaint.
> >
> > We have been previously running gnucash 2.2.9 on Leopard for the last
> year
> > and it seemed to run fine but upgrading to gnucash 2.4 gives this error.
> >
> > Has anyone had the same experience?  Incidentally, I'm really a Linux
> user
> > and am not that familiar with Macs.  Perhaps I am just missing a library?
> > If so, how would I install it?
>
> Hmm. It appears that it's installed by Developer Tools (a.k.a. XCode).
> That's an optional installation on your Leopard distribution DVD.
>
> It also appears that I managed to build 2.2.9 without requiring it at all,
> and 2.3.x with a newer version in the bundle. I'll fix 2.4.0 so that uses an
> in-bundle libltdl and get new dmgs up in a day or two.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>