MacOS 10.13.2 won't work with Gnucash

[John Ralls]

Sorry, you're talking through your hat.

GnuCash isn't built as a universal binary, it's 32-bit only. 32-bit programs run just fine on all 64-bit OSes supported by Gtk+. We (meaning I) provide two such, one for PPC built on an actual PPC Mac Mini and one Intel, built on a MacPro running MacOS 10.13.2, but using Xcode 3 and MacOSX-10.5.sdk to provide backward compatibility.

Most likely Patricia downloaded the wrong one.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Dec 18, 2017, at 8:08 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> At Mon, 18 Dec 2017 08:15:56 -0500 "R. Victor Klassen" <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Looks like you somehow got the build for an x86 machine (on PowerPC machine)
>> or (more likely) the build for a PowerPC machine on an x86 machine.
> 
> More likely 32 vs 64 bit x86 (ix86 vs x86_64).
> 
>> 
>> It's complaining about the CPU.
> 
> Not exactly -- it is more likely universal [shared] library support or
> universal binary support. Or 32-bit support of any sort.
> 
> It is really unlikely to build for something other than x86 on a Mac these 
> days -- requires some serious hackery to get the PowerPC and/or M68K compilers 
> installed and get things configured to compile that way on a really modern Mac 
> (I guess it can be done, but it is not going to be something done by mistake). 
> Messing up between 32 and 64 bit or not getting the universal binary thing is 
> an easy mistake.  And it is entirely possible that if you create a proper 
> universal binary for both 32 and 64 bit, you land on a 64-bit only Mac without 
> universal shared libraries...
> 
> I don't believe modern / current MacOSX versions are even available for 
> PowerPC machines and Apple has not made PowerPC machines in some time (over a 
> decade or two).
> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 18, 2017, at 7:56 AM, itspmm at gmail.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> I did what was suggested with Terminal, although it didn't seem to work
>>> initially. After I removed the % sign from the command and tried again, this
>>> is what came up:
>>> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t377801/Gnucash_at_Dec_18_23-52-10.png>
>>> I'm still not sure I got the command right as I rarely use Terminal. Does it
>>> mean anything to you?Pat.M
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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