Mailing List Archive: Gnucash doesn't compile

Gnucash doesn't compile

frederic.grosshans.1995 at polytechnique

Oct 26, 2004, 10:12 AM

Post #1 of 11 (1200 views)

I need gnucash to access old datas, but I'm not able to compile it. When
I type

#emerge -v gnucash

it ends up with the following message :

****************************************
checking whether guile works... yes
checking for guile... /usr/bin/guile
checking for guile - 1.3.4 <= version < 99.99.99... no
configure: warning: guile version check failed
configure: error:

guile does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not in the
correct version range. Perhaps you have not installed the guile
development packages? Right now gnucash requires at least version
1.3.4 to build.

!!! ERROR: app-office/gnucash-1.8.9 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 449, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
message.

********************************

However, I seem to have a guile in the good version range :

**************************
# etcat -v guile
[ Results for search key : guile ]
[ Candidate applications found : 5 ]

Only printing found installed programs.

* dev-util/guile :
[ ] 1.4-r3 (1.4) OVERLAY
[ I] 1.4.1 (1.4.1) OVERLAY
[ ] 1.6.4 (12) OVERLAY
[ I] 1.6.4-r1 (12) OVERLAY
[M ] 1.6.4-r2 (12) OVERLAY
************************

I even have two of them installed (both above 1.3.4). What should I do ?

Frédéric

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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

ka0ttic at gentoo

Oct 27, 2004, 5:37 AM

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ï¿½ Grosshans wrote:
| I need gnucash to access old datas, but I'm not able to compile it. When
| I type

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| I even have two of them installed (both above 1.3.4). What should I do ?

You should search http://bugs.gentoo.org/. If you can't find a bug that
resembles yours, submit one.

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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

frederic.grosshans.1995 at polytechnique

Oct 27, 2004, 7:40 AM

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Le mer 27/10/2004 à 14:37, Aaron Walker a écrit :

> You should search http://bugs.gentoo.org/. If you can't find a bug that
> resembles yours, submit one.

OK, that's the bug 65863 ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65863
).

Is there an obvious workaround ? Or, at least, a way to extract some
datas from my old gnucash files ?

Cheers,

Fred

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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

kurtg at serent

Oct 27, 2004, 8:06 AM

Post #4 of 11 (1185 views)

Try the '~x86' version. I remember having problems compiling GnuCash
myself, but I can't remember the exact issue.

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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

frederic.grosshans.1995 at polytechnique

Oct 27, 2004, 9:18 AM

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Le mer 27/10/2004 à 17:06, Kurt Guenther a écrit :
> Try the '~x86' version.

There is currently no ~x86 version of gnucash.

> I remember having problems compiling GnuCash
> myself, but I can't remember the exact issue.

I'm happy to learn you managed to get rid of those problems. At least,
that gieves me some hope ;-)

Fred

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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

dol-sen at telus

Oct 27, 2004, 5:23 PM

Post #6 of 11 (1179 views)

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:18 +0200, FrÃ©dÃ©ric Grosshans wrote:
> Le mer 27/10/2004 Ã 17:06, Kurt Guenther a Ã©crit :
> > Try the '~x86' version.
>
> There is currently no ~x86 version of gnucash.
>
> > I remember having problems compiling GnuCash
> > myself, but I can't remember the exact issue.
>
> I'm happy to learn you managed to get rid of those problems. At least,
> that gieves me some hope ;-)
>
>
> Fred

There was an incompatibility with the 2.6 kernels. It needed to be
compiled with a 2.4 kernel. It would run on a 2.6 kernel after that.

I thought that problem was fixed though.
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Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

gabriel at teuton

Oct 27, 2004, 9:06 PM

Post #7 of 11 (1184 views)

Frédéri Grosshans wrote:

> OK, that's the bug 65863 ( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65863
> ).
>
> Is there an obvious workaround ? Or, at least, a way to extract some
> datas from my old gnucash files ?

I compiled gnucash recently with a 2.6.8 kernel, and it works great. Have
you tried: I'm guessing that there's a dependency missing for guile.

What does '/usr/bin/guile --version' give you?

If that fails (I bet it does), look for the following libraries in /lib
and /usr/lib. Look for one to be missing or in an odd place.

ld-linux.so.2
libguile.so.12
libguile-ltdl.so.1
libdl.so.2
libqthreads.so.12
libpthread.so.0
libcrypt.so.1
libm.so.6
libc.so.6

FYI: I'm guessing that you have a missing dependency that hasn't been
checked for by that autoconf scripts. I expect that 'guile --version' will
either give you a system error or a strange version number.

HTH!!

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Re: Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

frederic.grosshans.1995 at polytechnique

Oct 28, 2004, 12:50 AM

Post #8 of 11 (1184 views)

Le jeu 28/10/2004 à 06:06, Gabriel M. Beddingfield a écrit :

>
> I compiled gnucash recently with a 2.6.8 kernel, and it works great. Have
> you tried: I'm guessing that there's a dependency missing for guile.

That's maybe the case. Re-emerging guile before gnucash solved the
problem.

Thanks for tour help.

Fred

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Re: Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

gabriel at teuton

Oct 28, 2004, 5:22 AM

Post #9 of 11 (1182 views)

Frédéric Grosshans wrote:

>> I compiled gnucash recently with a 2.6.8 kernel, and it works great.
>> Have
>> you tried: I'm guessing that there's a dependency missing for guile.
>
> That's maybe the case. Re-emerging guile before gnucash solved the
> problem.

Thanks for the follow-up. I almost recommended that. Glad you got your
problem solved!

You said you need to access old data... what are you using for financial
software now?

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Re: Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

motub at planet

Oct 28, 2004, 6:04 AM

Post #10 of 11 (1186 views)

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:

> I'm guessing that there's a dependency missing for guile.
>
> What does '/usr/bin/guile --version' give you?

I want to say thank you, because this solved a problem I was having with
a completely other program (sol, or AisleRiot, one of the gnome-games).

/usr/bin/guile --version gave me exactly the same error that I got when
trying to run sol, which broke for unknown reasons:

ERROR: Unbound variable: include-deprecated-features

I found that extremely suspicious that both programs were failing with
the same error, remerged guile and sol, and now it works again.

So thanks a lot for pointing me to the source of the problem, even if by
coincidence.

Holly

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Re: Re: Gnucash doesn't compile [ In reply to ]

gabriel at teuton

Oct 28, 2004, 5:58 PM

Post #11 of 11 (1187 views)

Holly Bostick wrote:

> So thanks a lot for pointing me to the source of the problem, even if by
> coincidence.
>

Holly, you just made my day. :-)

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