thanks Ryan, it works now! On 9 Sep 2008, at 1:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2008, at 21:47, nodje wrote: > >> I had successfully build Gnucash in the past but its stopped >> working because >> of some dependencies on Goffice. >> I've never been able to upgrade it. >> I tried sudo port -ufn upgrade gnucash but it ended up in: >> >> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... no >> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... >> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file >> config.log for >> the >> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly >> installed. >> configure: error: >> *** GLIB >= 2.6 is required to build Gnucash; please make sure you >> have the >> *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLIB is >> *** always available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/. >> >> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. >> >> I don't really understand this actually. Why is Macport not able to >> treat >> glib as a dependency and update it? I'd be happy to upgrade it >> myself but >> there's many glib available (from 'port installed'). >> >> What am I supposed to do here? I'm looking at >> http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/build-instructions >> to build >> a Quartz compatible version of gnucash but I'd rather have it built >> with >> port. > > What version of glib2 is installed and active? Many older versions > may well be installed if you've done many upgrades in the past, but > only one is active. Try: > > port installed glib2 > > The current version of glib2 is 2.16.5 which should satisfy the > dependency. If somehow you have an older version than that installed > and active, then: > > sudo port upgrade glib2 > > Or attach the aforementioned config.log so we can see what's going > wrong. > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
