On Sat, May 29, 2010 3:31 am, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Saturday 29 May 2010, John Ralls wrote: >> On May 28, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Tao Wang wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I cannot find following packages requirements in 'configure.ac': >> > >> > libart2 (libart_lgpl) >> > libgnomeprint >> > libgsf >> > libofx >> > pango >> > swig >> > >> > But they are the wiki/Dependencies, Does GnuCash still depend on these >> > packages? or should we add them as requirement check in the >> > 'configure.ac' file? >> >> libart_lgpl and pango are required to build current versions of gtk+, >> but >> in the past there were ways to build it without them. It's probably >> redundant to have them in our dependency list, but I can't be sure.
These are probably indirect dependencies. Unfortunately there's not a good answer for solving this problem, especially when the direct dependency does not always link in. In this case we should depend on the packager to have proper -devel package dependencies. I.e., we should not include a configure check for indirect dependencies. >> swig is needed for integrating the C and Scheme (Guile) parts of >> Gnucash. Note that swig is only required when building from subversion, and there *IS* a check in configure when you build from subversion. When you build from a tarball then you do not need swig, so it doesn't check for it. >> libgnomeprint is deprecated and its functions have been absorbed by gtk+ >> in >> 2.10, so it should be safe to delete it as a dependency. >> > Yes, I removed this dependency somewhere in the 2.3.x development cycle > when I > updated the gtk+ requirement to 2.10. > >> libofx is required for reading Microsoft Money and Quicken files. >> libgsf is some sort of structured file interface, which Gnucash uses. This is conditional on --enable-ofx. There should already be a configure test to make sure it's there. >> A good way to work out what dependencies are used is to use ldd on the >> binaries. Remember to check dynamically-loaded bundles as well as >> executables and shared libraries, and to follow all dependencies. >> > On Windows, you can use the graphical tool dependency walker for this. > >> Regards, >> John Ralls -derek _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
