Compiling GnuCash 2.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.10

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri Oct 25 04:26:15 EDT 2013


On Friday 25 October 2013 09:19:04 Colin Law wrote:
> 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

... and both xsltproc and libxslt-dev probably depend on libxslt, so libxslt will always be 
installed if either of the former gets installed ?

That's what I would expect and then there is indeed no problem and the updated configure 
checks test for this properly.

Geert


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