Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 24 October 2013 12:57:25 Derek Atkins wrote:
> On Thu, October 24, 2013 12:38 pm, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >> They must be building xsltproc with libxslt statically linked.
> >> Weird.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> > 
> > Yes, that's indeed weird.
> > 
> > xsltproc needs libxslt. So if xsltproc can be used without
> > installing
> > libxslt on Ubuntu that
> > could only be because xsltproc is linked statically against libxslt.
> > 
> > Colin, out of curiosity, if you remove libxslt (libxslt-dev is
> > irrelevant so it may or may not be
> > installed), does xsltproc still work on your system ? If not, that
> > would be a packaging bug on
> > Ubuntu.
> 
> Indeed.  On my F18 system:
> 
> ldd /usr/bin/xsltproc
> 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff57618000)
> 	libxslt.so.1 => /lib64/libxslt.so.1 (0x0000003c6e800000)
> 	libexslt.so.0 => /lib64/libexslt.so.0 (0x0000003c63c00000)
> [snip]
> 
> So it is clealry a dynamic linkage on F18.  Ubuntu would have to do
> something special to compile it statically.  Still, I think the real
> fix here is that configure should check for AC_PROG xsltproc, and
> also check for the usability of libxslt (which would require
> libxslt-dev).  I think it's okay if xsltproc doesn't pull in libxslt,
> because libxslt-dev certainly would.
> 
It didn't bring it up in this thread, but see r23320 which I committed earlier today: that's 
exactly what I have added :)

Geert