building gnucash on debian

[John Ralls]

On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:29 PM, John Griessen wrote:

> On 01/18/2011 07:04 PM, John Griessen wrote:
>> will a migration to the newest source code build cure all?
> 
> I've hit trouble with requirements on debian to build gnucash.
> 
> 
> ./configure
> 
> results:
> ===============
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.12.0... no
> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
> configure: error:
> 
> 

More than likely you don't have installed libglib2.0-dev. You'll need dev packages for all of the dependencies.

Regards,
John Ralls