Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 24 12:02:09 EDT 2013


On 24 October 2013 16:18, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [snip]
>> checking for libxslt... no
>> Package libxslt was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
>> you should add the directory containing `libxslt.pc' to the
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libxslt' found
>> configure: error: Library requirements (libxslt) not met; consider
>> adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries
>> are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>>
>> Libxslt was not one of the packages that were installed when I ran the
>> apt-get build-dep.
>
> Correct, because it is a new requirement in the current code; it was not
> a requirement for the previous version.  However the apt-get build-dep
> will get you 95% of the way there.
>
> Then you'll just need to iterate:
>
> 1) run configure
> 2) install whatever configure complains is missing
> 3) repeat until configure passes

4) Update the wiki at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building so that
the rest of us can benefit from your labours :)

Colin


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