Dave Peticolas writes:
>
> > I have successfully built Gnucash on a Debian potato system. It looks
> > good! Thanks to the development team.
> >
> > One fairly clear minor bug and one possible minor bug discovered so
> > far:
> >
> > Starting up gnucash for the first time (and on subsequent occasions)
> > I got the following message on startup:
> >
> > gnucash: bootstrap file is /usr/local/stow/gnucash-CVS/share/gnucash/scm/boot
> > strap.scm
> > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/local/stow/gnucash-CVS/share/gnucash/scm
> > /text-export.scm"
>
> Do you have the right slib package installed?
>
>
I've got slib 2c6 installed - it's the current version packaged for
potato (Debian's current development version).
> > As I don't know scheme I can't tell if there is indeed a problem with
> > that file, but it does appear to contain scheme code.
> >
> > The second bug, if you can call it that, is that your configure script
> > doesn't check for the presence of gtkxmhtml or eperl.
>
> Yeah, we should be checking for gtkxmhtml. eperl (and slib)
> aren't used to build, so we should probably be checking for
> them at runtime, and telling the user if they're not there.
>
As far as gtkxmhtml goes, would you mind if I have a go at working
up a patch? I've got to learn autoconf myself, and detecting a header
file should be a fairly simple introduction. I'll have a go Sunday
morning, patch should be done by the evening (Australian time)
WRT eperl, looking at the code, eperl's location seems to be hardwired
into the code. It would be fairly simple to test for eperl's
existence in autoconf, compile the location in, and then test whether
it's still present and executable.
However, this is the sort of thing that should be modifiable in a
config file or changable via an environment variable. Is this the
sort of thing that the scheme code handles?
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