option to disable webgtk?

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 19, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Klaus Dahlke <kdahlke at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> I use gnucash on Archlinux compiling by myself. After the last upgrade gnucash stopped working due a missing libicuuc-version ...so.59.
> 
> After playing around with downgrading some stuff etc (which doesn't work), recompiling webkit-2.4.9 (didn't work either) I did follow the recommendation in https://forum.manjaro.org/t/gnucash-latest-update-missing/31927/14, downgraded cairo and also installed the Libicuuc libs in version ...50 parallel to the ...60 version. 
> 
> with ./configure --enable-aqbankig --guile=1.8 compilation run successful and gnucash works. 
> 
> For what is webkit used/required? Only for reports? If so, is there an easy way to disable webkit usage? I use gnucash with the sql backend and have my own reporting as a ruby on rails application.

Yes, webkit is used only for reports. There's no easy way to disable it.

I'd think that it would be pretty simple to just symlink libicuxxx.so.60 to libicuxxx.so.59 and use the distro-packaged gnucash and libwebkit1.

Regards,
John Ralls