On 09-Mar-1999, Kevin A. Foss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:48:45 +1100, Tyson Dowd wrote:
>
> >I have been working on getting it packaged for Debian (which has all
> >the required packages except xmhtml) but this means first I have to
> >package xmhtml, which is itself in a bit of a mess mess (none of the
> >documentation matches the code, and the whole thing appears to have
> >been hacked around with to get it to be gtk-xmhtml).
> >
> >I have been working with Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to try
> >to get it to build under Debian, but it is a non-trivial job.
>
> One quick and dirty solution towards getting xmhtml (and ultimately)
> gnucash working with Debian is just to run alien on the binary .rpm of
> xmhtml. I had no problems getting the resulting .deb to install and be
> seen by gnucash. Basically I found that using that and the latest
> versions of the other libraries in Debian slink were enough to compile
> 1.1.26. I realize this isn't a long term solution for the xmhtml
> problem but it can be timesaver if you just want to get going and start
> using gnucash. It is xmhtml or gnucash that you are referring to as
> non-trivial to get to compile for Debian? I found that gnucash compiled
> very easily once had I had xmhtml installed.
I wanted to actually package XmHTML because there are a few Debian
developers lurking on this list who would probably be able to help
much more easily with gnucash if it were a Debian package (and so
they would want it to depend on other Debian packages not just
quick hacks).
Last night I packaged up XmHTML, I am uploading it to incoming now.
Getting XmHTML to build isn't so bad, but it took a bit of work to
get a shared library version created, and I had never packaged a
library before, so had to learn how to do that.
I don't expect major difficulties compiling gnucash now.
(in fact to test this I just tried building the Debian package
and apart from a few changes I need to make to the installation
directories, it works).
--
The quantum sort:
while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); }
Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/
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