There are RH8.0 RPMs available at www.gnucash.org.. Just download
those and use them. They should work just fine.
The RPM maintainer is looking at this...
-derek
Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "Derek" == Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Derek> What happens if you try gnucash 1.7.6?
>
> Well....I got 1.7.5 to work fine after a series of upgrades including
> guile and Guppi. But at this point I have upgraded my system to
> RedHat 8.0. I've found I can't get the 1.7.6 source RPM to build; it
> runs until very near the end when I get the following:
>
> Finding Provides: /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides
> Finding Requires: /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires
> PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <=
>3.0.4-1
> Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> Requires: gnucash = 1.7.6
> Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/gnucash-1.7.6-root
> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libagedver.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libagedver.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libfuturemodsys.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libfuturemodsys.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libincompatdep.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libincompatdep.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libbar.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libbar.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libgncmodbar.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libgncmodbar.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libbaz.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libbaz.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libgncmodbaz.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libgncmodbaz.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libfoo.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libfoo.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libgncmodfoo.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libgncmodfoo.so.0.0.0
> /usr/share/info/dir
>
>
> RPM build errors:
> Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libagedver.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libagedver.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libfuturemodsys.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libfuturemodsys.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libincompatdep.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/misc-mods/libincompatdep.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libbar.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libbar.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libgncmodbar.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-bar/libgncmodbar.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libbaz.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libbaz.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libgncmodbaz.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-baz/libgncmodbaz.so.0.0.0
> /home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libfoo.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libfoo.so.0.0.0
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libgncmodfoo.la
>
>/home/roland/tmp/rpm/BUILD/gnucash-1.7.6/src/gnc-module/test/mod-foo/libgncmodfoo.so.0.0.0
> /usr/share/info/dir
>
> I had a similar problem with upgrading g-wrap using the source RPM on
> gnucash.org. To get around it, I added this to the %install section:
>
> rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/dir
>
> The problem is the %post instruction runs install-info which adds an
> entry to %{_infodir}/dir or creates the file. The problem is that for
> building the RPMs, it really shouldn't do that. I don't know enough
> about writing RPM specs to have a good suggestion for either of these
> problems.
>
> roland
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