On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Olaf Foellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> * Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04.11.08 09:20]wrote: >> >> > Greetings, >> > >> > I am one of the GnuCash developers, so I read with some excitement >> Olaf >> > Foellinger's report that he was able to build GnuCash without X11. If >> I >> >> :). Besides, I'm on 10.4 >> >> > can repeat his success and test it out, I hope that at some point we >> > might be able to begin offering GnuCash for Mac in native form. >> >> Very good, that's been my intention, too. >> >> > However, I tried it myself without much luck. Perhaps someone could >> > advise. >> > I have a brand-new MacBook Pro now (10.5.5), on which I installed >> > MacPorts. I started with the following: >> > sudo port install dbus +no_x11 >> > sudo port install cairo +no_x11 >> > sudo port install pango +no_x11 >> > sudo port install gtk2 +no_x11 >> >> Two prerequisites are missing: >> >> - delete the line "depends_run port:evince" in the gnucash portfile >> (that deletes many complicated gnome dependencies, too) >> > > Thanks, that was the problem. I saw that the line was in the portfile but I > hadn't commented it out. > > - in aqbanking portfile replace the line >> --with-frontends="cbanking g2banking qbanking" >> with >> --with-frontends="g2banking" >> - for the installation of libgtkhtml3 i had to apply the patch >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16989 > > > This part worked OK for me without the patch, maybe because of 10.5.5. > > >> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16989> >> - during the installatin of slib-guile16 sometimes I had to call >> $ ${prefix}/share/guile/site >> manually. >> > > I ran into that too, thanks. > > >> >> > sudo port install gnucash +without_hbci >> > The "+without_hbci" was just to remove a few dependencies, for a >> > hopefully greater chance of success. However, this failed when it >> > reached the desktop-gnome dependency, saying what I understand to >> mean >> > "I'm trying to build desktop-gnome +x11 but I need gtk2 +x11 and you >> > have gtk2 +no_x11 instead." >> >> Not necessary, hbci is working and needed here in Germany. >> > > Agreed, I will try building with aqbanking & gwen but just wanted to test > with less dependencies initially. > > >> >> > ---> Configuring gnome-desktop >> >> That has not been built here so I assume it's a evince dependency. >> > > Yes, it was only there for evince, so commenting out evince fixed that. > > >> >> If you have any further questions I'm glad to answer. Gnucash does run >> here from the command line. >> > > I do have a problem once the install is finished. When I start gnucash it > complains about being unable to load settings. It seems that gconf can't > start: > > charless-macbook-pro:~ cedayiv$ gconftool-2 --spawn > Failed to spawn the configuration server (gconfd): Failed to contact > configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable > TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system > crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details > - 1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch > D-Bus session: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not compiled in. > Cannot continue. > > Any ideas? > > Don't worry, I found the answer here. I see that you have commented there also. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755#comment:17 So I now have a working GnuCash to play with. Thanks again. >> Gruß Olaf >> > > Cheers, > Charles >
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