Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri Oct 25 04:19:04 EDT 2013


On 24 October 2013 17:57, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> 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.

I see the confusion now, I have been talking about libxslt-dev (which
was the libxslt package originally suggested as being necessary).  In
fact the libxslt binaries are actually in the package libxslt1.1.  So
I think there is no problem.

Colin


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