Completely unusable date input in RHEL 6 for cs_CZ locale

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 19 July 2014 22:28:02 John Ralls wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 15/07/14 06:35, John Ralls wrote:
> >>> Hmm, and the bug doesn't look much hopeful (BTW, is it me or you
> >>> who confuses glib and glibc? which one is a problem here?).
> >> 
> >> Depends on the version. I rewrote the date handling in 2.6 to use
> >> GLib exclusively, while 2.4 and older versions used a mix of GLib
> >> and
> >> libc for formatting and parsing. 2.8 will use
> >> boost::calendar::gregorian.
> >> 
> >> The fix that Geert mentioned in the bug report is in 2.6.3. Please
> >> try it if you haven't already, and comment on the bug report
> >> whether
> >> it works for you or not.
> > 
> > Did I say my wife is on RHEL-6? But, yes when trying here on RHEL-7
> > (gnucash-2.6.3-1.el7.x86_64) it seems to be fixed.
> 
> 2.6.3 should also work on RHEL-6, though you may not be able to get it
> from their package manager.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Unfortunately, building gnucash 2.6.3 on RHEL-6 will be challenging as it requires 
gtk2>2.24 and glib2>2.28.

RHEL-6 currently ships gtk2=2.20 and glib2=2.26.

Geert