Another thing that should probably be thought about is how many of the
special features of each dependency are REALLY needed for GNUcash to work.
One nice thing about a lot of the GNU programs is that if you have the
latest and greatest version of a particular library, they'll use it; if
you don't, however, they'll notice it in the configure script, set some
defines, and work around it. Could this not be done for the Motif 2.0
symbols, or maybe libguile?
Sean C. Rhea
"the flag itself symbolizes the freedom to burn it" -- dgenr8 on Slashdot
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> Matt Armstrong wrote:
> > Jeremy Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > Enough is enough...
> > >
> > > We have a serious problem with Gnucash and its preventing people from
> > > using and/or developing Gnucash. There are way to many package
> > > requirements to get Gnucash to install properly. Something HAS to been
> > > done about this. It is too hard to get Gnucash installed.
> >
> > I can imagine two solutions.
> >
> > One option is bundling all those packages with gnucash. This way, you
> > get all the correct versions with gnucash. This is a bit much for big
> > things like lesstif or gnome, but not such a big deal for the others.
> > The advantage here is that if they have, say, an incompatible version of
> > guile already installed, gnucash gets the correct version anyway.
>
> Fairly ugly.
>
> > Another option is to maintain working versions of all the required
> > packages on gnucash.org -- both RPM and source.
>
> *This* would be a good move.
>
> It would be a good move to not have gnucash RPMs dependent on
> "libguile 1.3," as that particular version is fairly obscure.
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