On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:16, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I spent about 6 or 7 hours last night and this morning fighting with
> Gnucash 1.6.4 to get it built. I can at least start gnucash and I get
> a window displayed :)
Congrats :)
> Is there any particular reason that configure has to look for the zvt,
> bonobo, and oaf libraries? The configure script claims that they are
> required by guppi or gtkhtml -- but if so wouldn't the `gnome-config`
> output for guppi or gtkhtml actually return the appropriate
> information?
It would, but then configure wouldn't catch it, or it would find
out when some later test failed mysteriously. Basically, those
tests get added when someone says "configure failed on X but I
have X and it turns out the test for X was failing because they
didn't have Y". So they are rather ad-hoc.
dave
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