Re: Motif compilation - success; running get guile stack overflow

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Amos Shapira said: > > gnucash: startup-file is NONE/share/gnucash/scm/startup/init.scm > guile: No such file or directory: "NONE/share/gnucash/scm/startup/init.scm" > > I think I tracked it down to lines 2504 and 2505 of "configure", where > GNC_SHAREDIR and GNC_CONFIGDIR

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I think I just fixed this in the latest cvs source. > > Nope. You've got -ltermcap in all the cases that also have > -lqthreads. Since guile 1.3 requires libqthreads, and since Debian > doesn't have libtermcap, no

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think I just fixed this in the latest cvs source. Nope. You've got -ltermcap in all the cases that also have -lqthreads. Since guile 1.3 requires libqthreads, and since Debian doesn't have libtermcap, none of the cases will succeed. We need one more case that ha

Re: User poll: who's not using guile 1.3 (the official release)?

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm aware not everyone here are Debian users, but if that's any indication, > there was a mention of this problem on the debian-devel mailing list. > There are two points main points I picked up from this: > > 1. 1.3 is still considered sort of "experim

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure how relevant this is, but Debian's old termcap libs' > description say that you can just link with the new ncurses to get an > API emulation of libtermcap. I just did "s/termcap/ncurses/" and it > seemed to help the compilation. Actually,

Re: Motif compilation - success; running get guile stack overflow

1998-11-19 Thread linas
> > gnucash: startup-file is /usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/startup/init.scm > > guile: Stack overflow I vaguely remeber this as being typical of a guile 1.2 setup ... --linas - %< >% -- The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, se

Re: Warning

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Jeremy Collins said: > There is a valid reason for this... Inquiring minds want to know ... - %< >% -- The GnuCash / X-Accountant Mailing List To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe gnucash

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, November 19 1998, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Ron Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |> Thanks to linas, I am past my configure problems (under slackware, |> apparently termcap is needed for the guile tests). | |Ah, looking back through the list, I found this, so it's R

Re: User poll: who's not using guile 1.3 (the official release)?

1998-11-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, November 19 1998, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |I wanted to know because I'd sort of like to make guile1.3 the first |"official" version we support. There's an ugly hack or two for 1.2 |and 1.3a that I'd like to drop, but I didn't want to do that if it |would affect very ma

Warning

1998-11-19 Thread Jeremy Collins
To all pobox.com users, I hate to do this but I have no choice. Anyone that is using a pobox.com email alias is going to be un_sub_scribed from the list in a minute or two. If you would like to stay on the list you will need to resu_b_scribe. There is a valid reason for this... I am not just c

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Ron Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that we can just unconditionally add -ltermcap to the > configure. For those platforms that don't need it, it shouldn't hurt > (linker won't include and objects from it, right?) No, on systems that don't have the library at all, the link

Re: Motif compilation - success; running get guile stack overflow

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These depend on ${datadir}, which depends on ${prefix} which doesn't > > get set at this point (unless if they are set from the command line), > > and defaults to 'NONE'. Adding a (redundant) "--prefix=/usr/local" > > configure's command line fixed t

Re: Using XML to save data?

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Amos Shapira said: > I don't expect GNUcash to keep updating the XML file on-the-fly. If > the file is too large to contain in memory or you want to provide more > crash-resistance then maybe some sort of a hacked, binary, > proprietary-format checkpoint file is in order,

Re: User poll: who's not using guile 1.3 (the official release)?

1998-11-19 Thread Jeremy Collins
Rob Browning wrote: > > I wanted to know because I'd sort of like to make guile1.3 the first > "official" version we support. There's an ugly hack or two for 1.2 > and 1.3a that I'd like to drop, but I didn't want to do that if it > would affect very many people. > > Thanks > I am using an ol

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Ron Forrester
> > Thanks to linas, I am past my configure problems (under slackware, > > apparently termcap is needed for the guile tests). > > Ah, looking back through the list, I found this, so it's RedHat that > needs libtermcap. Actually, its Slackware, not RedHat -- at least thats what I am running, and

Re: User poll: who's not using guile 1.3 (the official release)?

1998-11-19 Thread Ron Forrester
> I wanted to know because I'd sort of like to make guile1.3 the first > "official" version we support. There's an ugly hack or two for 1.2 > and 1.3a that I'd like to drop, but I didn't want to do that if it > would affect very many people. I would love to make 1.3 the standard. I had it instal

Re: I give up (Re: GNOME gnucash building)

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Danny Backx said: > > I'll just have to give up on GnuCash. Have you tried using the precompiled version? Or are you trying to compile because you want to do development? --linas - %< >% -- The GnuCash / X-Accountant M

Re: libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: > > Ron Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thanks to linas, I am past my configure problems (under slackware, > > apparently termcap is needed for the guile tests). > > Ah, looking back through the list, I found this, so it's RedHat that >

Re: Motif compilation - success; running get guile stack overflow

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amos Shapira) writes: > For this stage, I'd like to suggest you to give what are the file > names that are looked for under --with-xmhtml-includes (and to a > lesser degree, --with-xmhtml-libraries). An instruction to give > absolute path names would also prevnt confusion, IM

libtermcap and guile

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Ron Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to linas, I am past my configure problems (under slackware, > apparently termcap is needed for the guile tests). Ah, looking back through the list, I found this, so it's RedHat that needs libtermcap. Does anyone have any good ideas for how to

User poll: who's not using guile 1.3 (the official release)?

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
I wanted to know because I'd sort of like to make guile1.3 the first "official" version we support. There's an ugly hack or two for 1.2 and 1.3a that I'd like to drop, but I didn't want to do that if it would affect very many people. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F52

Re: guile "Unbound variable" problem

1998-11-19 Thread Rob Browning
Danny Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've had a couple of free minutes, and I've figured out where this problem is, and it's nasty. The problem is that I (and others) were using guile 1.2 and guile 1.3a which required the manual loading of boot-9.scm. It looks like guile 1.3 has fixed this,