After seeing that russ nelson was having problems compiling gnucash, I
decided that I should see if I could help the debugging effort a
little bit last night.
I did a cvs checkout of the most recent, and died during the compiles,
maybe not exactly the same as russ, but whenever I did "make motif" or
"make gnome" or any other make targets, it would die quickly.
After reading this post, I checked my own config.log, and it had the
same things about readline. I did "apt-get install
libreadlineg2-dev", and "rm config.cache" (I noticed that the previous
configure runs were failing to find the right readline things, and
that was cached on my other configure runs today.)
I will report on how well that goes later on, but could it be that the
./configure script needs to be fixed to abort if it can't find
readline?
rob
>>>>> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:16:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell Nelson
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Russell> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Making install in guile make[4]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/local/godel/src/GnuCash/gnucash/lib/g-wrap/guile' make[5]:
>> Entering directory
>> `/usr/local/godel/src/GnuCash/gnucash/lib/g-wrap/guile' /bin/sh
>> ../mkinstalldirs
>> /usr/local/godel/src/GnuCash/gnucash/lib/g-wrap-install/lib mkdir
>> /usr/local/godel/src/GnuCash/gnucash/lib/g-wrap-install/lib /bin/sh
>> ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libgwrapguile.la
>> /usr/local/godel/src/GnuCash/gnucash/lib/g-wrap-install/lib/libgwrapguile.la
>> Hopefully some portion of this may be illuminating.
Russell> Aha! configure is busted:
Russell> checking for guile-config... /usr/bin/guile-config checking
Russell> for scm_boot_guile in -lguile... no configure: warning: Can
Russell> not find Guile on the system checking for scm_puts in
Russell> -lguile... no
Russell> And the config.log says:
Russell> configure:1729: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/include
Russell> conftest.c -lguile -L/us r/lib -lguile -lqthreads -ldl
Russell> -lreadline -lm 1>&5 ld: cannot open -lreadline: No such file
Russell> or directory
Russell> configure is NOT my friend.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher J. Booth)
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 04:33:25 -0500
Subject: Re: comment on a recent post...
>As Chaucer said of the Clerk, one of the few good ones wending to
>Canturbury, "gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."
>
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>Where do I find more about this quote, the circumstances surrounding
>it, and any story that might go well with it?
>
>tia,
>Rob
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Hi, Rob. The post was mine, and the quote was from the _Canturbury Tales_
by Geoffrey Chaucer, the first truly great English (language) poet
(1340s-1400). Chaucer was the first major poet in England to write in the
vulgate and made our language acceptable as a vehicle for literary,
courtly, and scholarly communication rather than the French of the Norman
ruling class (much as Dante did for Italian--before Dante, to be taken
seriously as a writer on had to write in latin). The _Canterbury Tales_
date from 1387 to 1400. They are a collection of stories told by a group of
pilgrims travelling from London (the Tabard Inn, the location of which is
still on London tourist maps, as is the Mermaid Tavern where Shakespeare
and Ben Johnson used to hang out) to Canterbury to visit the cathedral,
considered at the time a very holy site. The stories are told to pass the
time as they go. It is entirely in verse--exquisite verse: powerful,
lyrical, sophisticated, full of vitality. The problem for many people is
that the language is quite archaic--technically it is Middle English--and
hard going without some background in it and good footnotes & glossary
handy. The quote in question is from the General Prologue of the
_Canturbury Tales_, in which Chaucer introduces the story and the
characters making the pilgrimage, giving a little blurb about each. The
group is a motley group of black-souled sinners and good-hearted and
sincere people. The Clerk is one of the good ones; a poor scholar. The line
quoted has always stuck with me.
I hope that this will help look for it. Should you have a go at Chaucer's
difficult achaic language you will find a wealth of beauty and thought (and
humor and great storytelling) therein.
Let me know if you'd like more info. Over the weekend perhaps I could key
some in with a little commentary or translation to make it less of a
struggle if you are unfamiliar with English from before Shakespeare.* But
you should be able to find it in any library. An intro anthology to English
Literature should have the General Prologue with enough footnotes and
glossary to make it easy. Volume 1 of the big ol' Norton Anthology of
English Literature should do.
*Having said that Chaucer is difficult, I must say that personally, I find
Chaucer much easier going than UNIX.
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