On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> What is really needed is some people who have the time to work on the
> installation/build process and document how exactly they got it working.
> Judging from your response, however, not even the people asking the
> quesitons have the time to do this ;-)
>
I managed to solve the compilation problems by carefully reading the
README file. Linas keeps it updated, and he also specifies links to the
packages needed(and some links contain rpm's too). My advice to anyone who
would like to build gnucash is to read the README file first. Ok, the
README file contains other information as well maybe one should write an
INSTALL file that will only contain information regarding the
instalation/build process.
Most of the problems are with lesstif, because people try to use the
latest version. The README file specifies what versions are working and
also that Xme* symbols are missing from some versions of lesstif. I'm
using 0.86.0 and it works fine with gnucash, xacc 1.0.18 , ddd, and gvim.
These are all the motif applications I use.
Another problem I encountered was that newer versions of gnucash use the
slib scheme library. I installed umb-scheme (it came with RH5.1) and made
a link from umb-scheme's slib directory to guile library directory. It
works fine.
Another thing is that you can only build a motif version. GNOME is still
under developpement and the gnome/gtk code is not fully functional. You
might be able to build it but you won't be able to use it anyway. (Or at
least that's what I did :)
This one I believe it's not important: I'm using RedHat 5.1 with gcc 2.8.1
Best regards,
alex.
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