building gnucash on debian

[Derek Atkins]

On Wed, January 19, 2011 12:59 am, John Ralls wrote:
>
> 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.

For starters:   apt-get build-dep gnucash

Then you'll need to add the 2.4 additional dependencies (webkit, dbi, etc)

> Regards,
> John Ralls

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-derek