Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[John Ralls]

On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:02 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 24 October 2013 10:36, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 October 2013 09:46:04 Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 24 October 2013 08:12, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>>> On Ubuntu 13.10 I can confirm that xsltproc and libxslt-dev are two
>>> separate packages with no inter-dependency.
>> 
>> Thanks for the confirmation. But to be clear: I didn't expect xsltproc to be
>> part of libxslt-dev, but rather part of libxslt. That's the way it's in the
>> original sources. But from what I understand on Ubuntu xsltproc is not part
>> of the libxslt package either. Is there an interdependency between those two
> 
> No, there is no inter-dependency.  I can install either one separately
> and it does not pull in the other.

They must be building xsltproc with libxslt statically linked. Weird.

Regards,
John Ralls