Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 1 september 2017 19:25:37 CEST Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages
> > for
> > icu installed ?
> 
> Geert,
> 
>    Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each library
> package.
> 
> > Oh, wait! The 2.6 branch of gnucash is not even explicitly declaring icu
> > as a dependency. IIRC it's being pulled in via Webkit. You should check
> > whether the webkit dependencies in slackware have been properly updated
> > to the new icu in 14.2.
> 
>    Now there's a thought.
> 
>    I just checked and both webkitgtk and libwebp have newer versions than
> what's on the SBo repository. I had not checked; assumed the maintainers
> were up to date.
> 
>    I will now build and install libwebp, webkitgtk, and gnucash-2.6.17 and
> will report the results.
> 
>    Thanks for catching this, Geert.
> 
> More later,
> 
Good luck. With webkitgtk you're probably busy for a couple of hours...

Geert