building from source.

[John Ralls]

On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> RHEL and by consequence CentOS are too far behind in their libraries for 
> GnuCash 2.5.x.
> 
> Rebuilding the libraries is hardly an option. Glib2 is a requirement for 
> almost every other package on your system, so if you want a special 
> glib2 for gnucash, you will probably have to rebuild each and every 
> library used by gnucash.
> 
> You're in an unfortunate position. You can build 2.4.13 on Centos 6, but 
> that won't get you much further. If you want to contribute in the future 
> (which I thought I understood from your other mail), you need to work on 
> the development branch.
> 
> So the only way forward I see for that is installing something like 
> virtualbox with a distribution that does have recent enough versions of 
> the above mentioned libraries. Almost all other current distros do.
> 
> Sorry for the bad news.
> 

I’ve updated README.dependencies to reflect the current requirements for
trunk. I also stripped out the ancient stuff regarding older distributions;
it hadn’t been updated since 2007 and I don’t see anyone taking that over.

Regards,
John Ralls