Building GnuCash

[Mike Evans]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:20:53 +0100
Pedro Albuquerque <palbuquerque73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I followed your advice and switched to 'maint'. Boost did stopped being
> asked for. But I still have a problem. 
> I first got this error:
> 
> configure: error: 
>     guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
>     correct version range.  Perhaps you have not installed the guile
>     development packages?  Gnucash requires at least version 1.8.5 to
> build.
> 
> so I tried to build guile, which returned an error missing Gnu MP. Ended
> up installing Gnu MP and then apt-get install guile-2.0.
> But the same error appears when I run ./configure in gnucash-git.
> 
> What am I doing wrong, please?
> 
> Regards,
> Pedro.

You need the guile development package.  so either apt-get guile-dev or guile-devel depending on your distro.



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