Is gtkhtml required to build gnucash?

[John Ralls]

On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:26 AM, 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?
> 

We left it as the default in 2.4 because last December, when we released 2.4.0, we weren't confident that we had the WebKit html interface stable. You can build in WebKit support instead of GtkHTML by passing --with-html-engine=webkit to configure.

Regards,
John Ralls