Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 23 October 2013 21:45:55 Jon Dallara wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 01:52 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 October 2013 21:00:26 Colin Law wrote:
> > > On 23 October 2013 03:13, Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone know what settings are needed to compile on Ubuntu? I
> > > > know
> > > > 
> > > > it can>
> > > > 
> > > > be done because the stable version is in the Ubuntu repository,
> > > > I
> > > > 
> > > > just can't seem to get the configure script to work. It manages
> > > > to
> > > > 
> > > > get past guile now but blows up on libxslt, saying it can't find
> > > > 
> > > > it. Its in the normal place with all the other libraries that it
> > > > 
> > > > can find. I'll be glad to post what ever files and/or directory
> > > > 
> > > > listings are helpful. I'd really like to be able to exploit some
> > > > 
> > > > of the new features and help test.
> > > 
> > > Have you installed xsltproc?
> > 
> > And have you installed libxslt-dev (or equivalent development
> > package
> > for libxslt) ?
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> Not sure which one it was or if I needed both (installed both at the
> same time), but it gets past there now.  Thanks!
> 
> Jon.
Jon,

You will need both the development package and xsltproc.

I was expecting xsltproc to be a part of libxslt (it is on Fedora and in the libxslt sources).

If you can confirm that on Ubuntu xsltproc and libxslt are two separate packages and that 
xsltproc is not a dependency of libxslt, I will have to improve the configure test. It currently 
assumes that if libxslt is available, xsltproc will be automatically as well. But your reply 
seems to contradict this at least on Ubuntu.

Geert