Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

[Jon Dallara]

On 10/24/2013 12:12 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Wednesday 23 October 2013 21:45:55 Jon Dallara wrote:
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> > On 10/23/2013 01:52 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> > > On Wednesday 23 October 2013 21:00:26 Colin Law wrote:
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> > > > On 23 October 2013 03:13, Jon Dallara <jondallara at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > Hello,
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> > > > > Anyone know what settings are needed to compile on Ubuntu? I
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> > > > > know
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> > > > > it can>
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> > > > > be done because the stable version is in the Ubuntu repository,
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> > > > > I
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> > > > > just can't seem to get the configure script to work. It manages
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> > > > > get past guile now but blows up on libxslt, saying it can't find
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> > > > > it. Its in the normal place with all the other libraries that it
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> > > > > can find. I'll be glad to post what ever files and/or directory
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> > > > > listings are helpful. I'd really like to be able to exploit some
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> > > > > of the new features and help test.
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> > > > Have you installed xsltproc?
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> > > And have you installed libxslt-dev (or equivalent development
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> > > for libxslt) ?
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> > > Geert
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> > Not sure which one it was or if I needed both (installed both at the
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> > same time), but it gets past there now. Thanks!
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> > Jon.
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> Jon,
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> You will need both the development package and xsltproc.
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> I was expecting xsltproc to be a part of libxslt (it is on Fedora and 
> in the libxslt sources).
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> 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.
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> Geert
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   Correct, I installed xsltproc first and then installed libxslt-dev 
secondly.  Libxslt was already on my system, most likely from my 
installing GnuCash 2.4.  Running apt-get build-dep didn't install either 
of the packages.
   After I got it to compile, I found that make install places 
everything under /usr/local/bin where as in Ubuntu the GnuCash 
executable is under /usr/bin.  This is preventing it from finding its 
shared libraries when I try to run it:

jon at jon-desktop:~/Downloads/gnucash-2.5.6$ whereis gnucash
gnucash: /usr/bin/gnucash /etc/gnucash /usr/bin/X11/gnucash 
/usr/local/bin/gnucash /usr/local/etc/gnucash /usr/local/lib/gnucash 
/usr/include/gnucash /usr/share/gnucash /usr/share/man/man1/gnucash.1.gz
jon at jon-desktop:~/Downloads/gnucash-2.5.6$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/local/lib
jon at jon-desktop:~/Downloads/gnucash-2.5.6$ gnucash
gnucash: error while loading shared libraries: libgnc-gnome.so.0: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
jon at jon-desktop:~/Downloads/gnucash-2.5.6$ /usr/bin/gnucash
ERROR: Undefined variable: gnc-is-debugging
jon at jon-desktop:~/Downloads/gnucash-2.5.6$

The last line will bring up the splash screen showing that it is running 
2.4.13 before it crashes with the error message.  How do I get make 
install to put the executable in the proper location? Sorry if I'm a bit 
of a pain, but I haven't played around with compiling since I retired 14 
years ago.

Thanks,

Jon.

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