I AGREE WITH MR CLARK JONES,
MAKING THINGS EASIER FOR ALL USERS SHOULD BE ONE OF THE GOALS
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Clark Jones wrote:
> Developers:
>
> This is at least the third time (counting myself) that I've seen this. I'm
> running GnuCash (under Mandrake 7.0, 386) with guile 6.0 and readline 4.1.
> I'm not having any problems with these later libraries. (I turned off the
> dependancy checking and planted the appropriate softlinks.)
>
> I would suggest that whoever's the keeper of the "makefile" that's used for
> the RPM please consider looking to see if you can't chop off the ".4" on
> libguile.so and the ".3" on libreadline.so so that we can use the "generic"
> softlinks.
>
> If there's not a specific reason to require the earlier version, please don't.
> It makes it difficult for people who aren't familiar with how the .so libraries
> work. Even though I've dealt with this stuff on occasion for many years, it
> took me a while to figure out how to get around it.
>
> Clark
>
> Shawn Lee wrote:
> >
> > I hate to complain, but we've entered a nasty little vicious circle here.
> >
> > Running Mandrake 7.1. I can't compile because I've yet to get past the
> > first problem that I posted here:
> >
> > g-wrap --api c ... gnc.gwp
> > Error in execlp: No such file or directory...
> >
> > Installing from the RPM nets this problem. So now what? Can someone
> > familiar with the build and making the RPMs PLEASE look into Mandrake 7/7.1.
> > I just moved over to Linux and I'm totally unfamiliar with swig/guile/g-wrap
> > etc. I program for the Dreamcast so I'd have NO idea how all of this is
> > supposed to work together and I don't have the time to hack.
> >
> > sdl
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Peticolas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:06 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: gnucash 1.4.1
> >
> > Rolando Roman writes:
> > > i just installed guile.rpm from suse and i still get this error as
> > > far as i see both of those libs are in my system
> > >
> > > root@Ptorico:/home/landy/rpms > rpm -Uvh gnucash-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm
> > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > libguile.so.4 is needed by gnucash-1.4.1-1
> > > libreadline.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.4.1-1
> > > root@Ptorico:/home/landy/rpms >
> >
> > The version of guile for suse is 1.3.4, the one used to build
> > the rpm is 1.3. You will be better off compiling from source.
> >
> > dave
> >
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