[GNC] Fwd: Compiling and Installing Gnucash 2.6.12

[Paul Schwartz]

Seems like my post was lost again. Here goes.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [GNC] Compiling and Installing Gnucash 2.6.12
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Cc: <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>, <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, <
kg7je at arrl.net>


the contents of ld.so.conf

paul at paul-Satellite-S855:/etc$ cat ld.so.conf
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

I have not run ld.conf ever. Should it have been part of make install?

Paul

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 8:48 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Is /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf? Have you run ldconfig since building
> GnuCash?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Sep 16, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > here is the file/files in question
> >
> > paul at paul-Satellite-S855:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l libgnc-gnome*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1939 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.la
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so ->
> > libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so.0 ->
> > libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3192456 Sep 12 09:11 libgnc-gnome.so.0.0.0
> >
> > Seem to be links to a real file in the same directory that is 3.2 MB
> > Paul
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:03 AM Geert Janssens <
> geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Op donderdag 13 september 2018 04:10:35 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
> >>> libgnc-gnome.so.0 is in /usr/local/lib
> >>>
> >> Is that a real file or a soft link ? If it's a softlink, does the file
> it
> >> points to exist ?
> >>
> >> How about file permissions ? Does the user you use to run gnucash have
> >> read
> >> access to this file or the file it points at ?
> >>
> >> Geert
> >>
> >>> How do I adjust the command so it is found?
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:36 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> On 09/12/2018 10:11 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >>>>> Op woensdag 12 september 2018 17:50:23 CEST schreef Paul Schwartz:
> >>>>>> I have made some progress. Uninstalled and removed previous gnucash
> >>>>
> >>>> 2.6.19
> >>>>
> >>>>>> which is the default installed in Ubuntu 18.04. Successfully did
> >>>>>> ./configure && make followed by sudo make install.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Executing gnucash produces
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> /usr/local/bin/gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:
> >>>>>> libgnc-gnome.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> >>>>
> >>>> directory
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Did I miss an argument for install or ??
> >>>>>> Thanks for the help
> >>>>>> Paul
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is the file really there ? It should be somewhere in /usr/local/lib
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Geert
> >>>>
> >>>> Since I had also compiled under Ubuntu, I looked on my system to see
> >>>> where it was located.  Here are my findings:
> >>>> steve at stevelaptop:~$ sudo su
> >>>> [sudo] password for steve:
> >>>> root at stevelaptop:/home/steve# cd /usr
> >>>> root at stevelaptop:/usr# find . -name libgnc-gnome.so.0
> >>>> root at stevelaptop:/usr# find . -name 'libgnc-gnome.*'
> >>>> ./local/lib/libgnc-gnome.so
> >>>>
> >>>> See if that is on your system.
> >>>>
> >>>> --Steve
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
> >>>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
> >>>> kg7je at arrl.net
> >>>> 253-350-0166
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