Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Derek Atkins (warl...@mit.edu) said: Speaking solely for myself, I'm OK with leaving RHEL 5 at 2.2.x and pushing 2.4.x into the next version of RHEL/EPEL. But I'm not 100% sure how many users we have on RHEL 5 that would want a newer version.

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Geert Janssens wrote: In an attempt to check if the glade-3 generated files still work on Centos/RHEL5, I tried to build the current trunk on a fully updated Centos 5. I didn't get that far though. GC trunk requires swig = 1.3.31. Centos 5 ships with swig

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Derek Atkins
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

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote: 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.

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Geert Janssens (janssens-ge...@telenet.be) said: RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble... 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL 2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses DBI_DECIMAL_SIZEMASK a constant that is only defined starting from libdbi 0.8.2. I'm not

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: That was exactly my next step. RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble... 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL 2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses DBI_DECIMAL_SIZEMASK a constant that is only defined starting

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Derek Atkins
Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com writes: Speaking solely for myself, I'm OK with leaving RHEL 5 at 2.2.x and pushing 2.4.x into the next version of RHEL/EPEL. But I'm not 100% sure how many users we have on RHEL 5 that would want a newer version. When is EL6 due? Could we still release 2.4

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5 (libdbi too recent)

2010-01-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: That was exactly my next step. RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble... 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5/EPEL 2. RHEL5 (base) ships libdbi 0.8.1, but GnuCash uses

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5

2010-01-26 Thread Bill Nottingham
Derek Atkins (warl...@mit.edu) said: Speaking solely for myself, I'm OK with leaving RHEL 5 at 2.2.x and pushing 2.4.x into the next version of RHEL/EPEL. But I'm not 100% sure how many users we have on RHEL 5 that would want a newer version. When is EL6 due? I am not at liberty to

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5 (libdbi too recent)

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Longstaff
, 2010 11:26:28 AM Subject: Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5 (libdbi too recent) On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Derek Atkins wrote: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: That was exactly my next step. RHEL as target platform is in serious trouble... 1. There's no packaged webkit for RHEL5

Re: GnuCash on CentOS 5 (libdbi too recent)

2010-01-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Phil Longstaff wrote: or RHEL sticks with gtkhtml It may very well go this direction. I tried to build webkit but didn't manage to do so yet. Someone with more experience with webkit may have a stab at it. I'll look at the libdbi issue. Great! Phil