Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> writes: > To answer my own question, I found this in config.in: > > # We need at least version 1.3.31 of SWIG because > # that's when SWIG doesn't barf on the "inline" keyword in C headers anymore > > If swig 1.3.31 is indeed required, then CentOS/RHEL is not a viable developer > platform for GnuCash in the current state of affairs. > > Note that GnuCash is not part of the RHEL base distribution. It's maintained > in Fedora's Epel repository (a relatively conservative support repository > that > recompiles a number of Fedora packages for RHEL/CentOS). > > Epel's policy is to never override a package in the base distribution. Swig > is > part of RHEL base, so Epel will not provide a more recent version. > > I have submitted an upgrade request for swig to 1.3.31 in RedHat's bugzilla. > I > don't know if Red Hat will consider it.
True, EL5 isn't a dev platform, but you don't need swig to build from the tarball. On some other (more recent) platform run: make dist then tar the tarball to EL5 and then you can build it there.. Or at least you should be able to. > Geert -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel