Is gtkhtml required to build gnucash?

[Geert Janssens]

On zondag 11 september 2011, Colin Law wrote:
> I am attempting to build the latest 2.4 version from the 2.4 git
> branch, on Ubuntu Oneiric Beta (11.10).  When I run ./configure I get:
> 
> checking the html engine... gtkhtml
> checking for libgtkhtml-3.14... no
> configure: error: cannot find GtkHTML >= 3.14
> 
> I can get around this by installing libgtkhtml3.14-19,
> libgtkhtml3.14-dev and libenchant-dev and then am able to build
> successfully.
> I thought I saw that libgtkhtml is no longer used.  Am I mistaken?
> 
> Colin

I think the 2.4 series can be built with either gtkhtml or gtkwebkit. I'm not 
sure which one is the default, but your experience suggests it's gtkhtml.

You can run

./configure --with-html-engine=webkit

to use gtkwebkit.

Geert