On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Donald, > > On Sat, December 11, 2010 10:23 am, Donald Allen wrote: > > On a Slackware 13.1 (32-bit) system, I just checked out svn head, tried > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash-devel, and got: > > > > checking for SLIB support... configure: error: > > > > Cannot find SLIB. Are you sure you have it installed? > > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922 > > and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483631 > > > > slib is installed: > > > > ls -l /var/adm/packages/slib* > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5425 2010-12-04 17:30 > > /var/adm/packages/slib-3b2-i486-2_SBo > > > > The second of the bugs mentioned in the error message contains a comment > > from Derek about a symlink from /usr/share/guile: > > > > /usr/share/guile: > > total used in directory 16 available 283823416 > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-12-04 17:30 . > > drwxr-xr-x 199 root root 4096 2010-12-04 17:30 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2010-02-25 14:53 1.8 > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-04-14 19:52 site > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2010-12-04 17:30 slib -> ../../lib/slib > > > > Furthermore, > > > > ls -l /usr/share/slib > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2010-12-04 17:30 /usr/share/slib -> ../lib/slib > > > > Any ideas? Need more info? (Derek?) > > Are you sure slib is not only installed but also configured properly? > Yes. No. > In particular, you need to make sure the slib catalog is created properly. > Exactly what I needed from you. The file slibcat does not exist. I think whatever slib configuration needs to be done for gnucash on slackware happens as a side-effect of installing the (currently 2.2.9) slackware package. But this machine has a fresh install of slackware and the gnucash package has never been installed, but the packages it depends on *were* installed. This is why I've never encountered this problem before when building from the sources (I've always built from source after having installed the package first). > Normally your distribution would do this for you, but as you're running > Slackware all bets are off and I'm afraid you're on your own. If you were > running Fedora or Ubuntu it would "just work". > Now why would I want to go and do a thing like that ?-) If I built gnucash from source on a Fedora or Ubuntu system under the same circumstances as I did with Slackware (never having installed the official gnucash package, but having manually installed the dependent packages to make the source build happy) I think it's possible that the same problem might occur, unless installation of the slib package also configures it. Anyway, I think you've pointed me in the right direction. I won't be able to test this for a day or two, but I will report back when I do. /Don > Please read the slib documentation as well those bug reports which go into > detail for how to test slib by running the 'require commands. > > HOPEFULLY we can remove the slib dependency from our scheme code, but that > project, last I checked, wasn't 100% complete. > > Anyone looking for a project? ;) > > > /Don > > -derek > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
