Thank you very much for your incredibly quick reply. I am very impressed indeed. The only error message - hidden on the bottom of a huge slab of output was this
Undefined symbols: _XSendEvent Ben On 24 Oct 2008, at 14:31, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On Oct 24, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Ben Rooney wrote: > >> Trying to install gnucash2 on MacOS 10.4.11. >> Using Package manager version: 0.28.6 >> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Oct 24 10:56:15 2008, >> 10.4, powerpc >> >> Have successfully done fink selfudate, and upgrade-all with no extra >> packages being added. But when I try and install gnucash2 it fails on >> evince. >> >> Failed: phase compiling: evince-2.20.2-5 failed >> >> When I try and just install evince it fails in the same way. >> Having searched through the archive I checked that GS was the right >> version >> >> checking for Ghostscript version...... found 8 >> >> This is the error report: >> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> make[2]: *** [libevince-properties-page.la] Error 1 >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make: *** [all] Error 2 >> ### execution of /var/tmp/tmp.1.Erpzi3 failed, exit code 2 >> Removing runtime build-lock... >> Removing build-lock package... >> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-evince-2.20.2-5 >> (Reading database ... 84973 files and directories currently >> installed.) >> Removing fink-buildlock-evince-2.20.2-5 ... >> Failed: phase compiling: evince-2.20.2-5 failed >> >> >> during the configuration phase it reports screens full of stuff as >> per norm. Only the following are reported as 'no' >> checking for g77... no >> checking for xlf... no >> checking for f77... no >> checking for frt... no >> checking for pgf77... no >> checking for cf77... no >> checking for fort77... no >> checking for fl32... no >> checking for af77... no >> checking for xlf90... no >> checking for f90... no >> checking for pgf90... no >> checking for pghpf... no >> checking for epcf90... no >> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no >> checking if gcc static flag -static works... no >> checking if g++ static flag -static works... no >> checking for ngettext in libc... no >> checking execinfo.h usability... no >> checking execinfo.h presence... no >> checking for execinfo.h... no >> >> Not quite sure where else to look. Any help would be hugely >> appreciated. >> >> Many thanks >> Ben >> >> > > Your "error report" isn't really useful. You're reporting what the > build system is saying after the real error, and many different > problems could potentially give the same message there. > > Check your output and find where the error messages _start_, then > post starting with the line from the compiler/linker that occurs > immediately before that. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
