GnuCash installation -- problem with goffice version

[David Reiser]

On 6 Oct 2007, at 8:45:17 PM, Paul Henegan wrote:

> Is it safe to edit the 'configure' file to include a check for  
> "libgoffice-0.5 >= 0.5.0", or is that asking for trouble?
>
> On 6 Oct 2007, at 19:43, Paul Henegan wrote:
>
>> An attempt to install GnuCash was interrupted by the following  
>> error message:
>>
>> "
>> checking for libgoffice-0.4 >= 0.4.0... no
>> checking for libgoffice-0.3 >= 0.3.0... no
>> checking for libgoffice-1 >= 0.0.4... no
>> configure: error: Cannot find libgoffice.
>> "
>>
>> I have verified that "goffice                        @0.5.0" is  
>> active.
>>
>> What's the best way to proceed?
>>
>
> Mac OS X 10.4.10, MBP 3,1 (mid-June 2007 model), X-Code 2.4.1, X11  
> 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0, MacPorts 1.520
>
>
At the moment, gnucash won't build against libgoffice-0.5. Even if  
you edit the makefile to get past configure, other compile problems  
occur. I only tried it once, so I'm fuzzy on the details...

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