Hi, Arnaud,
I've been monitoring your progress on the gnucash mailing list. I don't subscribe to the list, but I wanted to get gnucash 1.6.0 installed on my Mandrake 8.0 box, so I was reading about your progress. I just wanted to encourage you: it can be done! I just finished the arduous process on a pretty stock Mandrake 8.0 box. After installing 2 dozen *devel*.rpm packages off the cd's and downloading another dozen Cooker packages from rpmfind.net, I was able to create a gnucash 1.6.0 rpm, install it, and start it successfully. It converted my old config file without any problems, and I played with the new gui a bit, so I'm pretty convinced it's working more-or-less as expected. It's pretty sweet.
The following are the packages I had to install off the CD's:
db1-devel-1.85-4mdk.i586.rpm
db2-devel-2.4.14-2mdk.i586.rpm
db3-devel-3.1.17-1mdk.i586.rpm
guile-devel-1.4-10mdk.i586.rpm
libGConf1-devel-1.0.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
libbonobo2-devel-1.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
libgal4-devel-0.5-2mdk.i586.rpm
libghttp1-devel-1.0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm
libglade0-devel-0.16-3mdk.i586.rpm
libgnomeprint15-devel-0.28-1mdk.i586.rpm
libgr1-devel-2.0.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
libgtkhtml7-devel-0.8.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
libguppi11-devel-0.35.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
libjpeg62-devel-6b-19mdk.i586.rpm
liboaf0-devel-0.6.5-1mdk.i586.rpm
libpng2-devel-1.0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm
libtermcap2-devel-2.0.8-28mdk.i586.rpm
libtiff3-devel-3.5.5-6mdk.i586.rpm
libungif4-devel-4.1.0-12mdk.i586.rpm
libunicode0-devel-0.4.gnome-1mdk.i586.rpm
libxml-devel-1.8.11-1mdk.i586.rpm
postgresql-devel-7.0.3-12mdk.i586.rpm
pythonlib-1.23-2mdk.noarch.rpm
zlib1-devel-1.1.3-15mdk.i586.rpm
The following are the Cooker packages I downloaded and installed from rpmfind.net:
Guppi-0.35.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
g-wrap-1.1.10-2mdk.i586.rpm
g-wrap-devel-1.1.10-2mdk.i586.rpm
gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.10.1-1.mdk.i586.rpm
libguppi11-0.35.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
libguppi11-devel-0.35.5-3mdk.i586.rpm
python-2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
python-devel-2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
python-docs-2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
readline-4.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
readline-devel-4.2-2mdk.i586.rpm
tkinter-2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
I'm not claiming that all of these are required to build it, but rather these are what /I/ had to install in order to get it to build. I may have also neglected to mention a few RPM's I needed off the CD's. But you should be able to figure out what you need pretty easily from the configure output and config.log.
If you'd like, I can email you the rpm I created. It's >6 megs, though, so it might take you less time to build it yourself. Also, it's not signed or anything, nor does it have the special 'mdk' extension, s
Good luck! Email me personally if you have any questions about what I did. I'll do my best to answer them, although it looks like you got most of them answered pretty successfully from the mailing list. I know just reading the recent archives helped me immeasurably, especially the part about checking config.log to see the many places where configuring gal failed... ;)
-Scott
