Op zondag 29 januari 2012 21:48:08 schreef Colin Law: > On 29 January 2012 20:24, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote: > > Op vrijdag 27 januari 2012 11:05:38 schreef Colin Law: > >> ... > >> I had a look at the packaged version of gnucash in the Ubuntu 12.04 > >> repository and realised that this suffers from the same problem > >> (though the symptom is not exactly the same hence I did not realise > >> this previously) so I have submitted a bug to launchpad [2] in the > >> hope that the package manager there will be able to redirect the bug > >> to the appropriate package. I presume that the package manager is not > >> here? > >> > >> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building > >> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/922514 > >> > >> Colin > > > > Note that your distribution could work around this by patching the > > environment file that is generated during build. This file ends up in > > /etc/gnucash/environment and contains a set of parameters that will be > > added to the environment when GnuCash is running. By adding an entry > > for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in there, GnuCash should pick it up before any > > druid is started. > > This is obviously only one way to make sure GnuCash gets the proper > > environment variable set. You may want to use another mechanism if that > > suits Ubuntu better. > > I am pretty sure that the fundamental problem is that one of the other > packages is not installing properly. I suspect that the library > should be installed into /usr/lib (or a link to it should), that seems > to be the normal route for libraries in Ubuntu. Well, I'm not sure about that. On fedora the libgnome library is also in the subdirectory of libglade, just as on Ubuntu. I don't think the libraries in that directory are loaded via the normal LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings, but using a manual call to ldopen or something from within libglade.
Something must have changed in Ubuntu 12.04 which causes this to fail. > Since the packaged > version of Gnucash suffers from the same problem I hope that whoever > is responsible for that will get it sorted. > Yes, that would be the best option. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
