Continuing problems with GnuCash

[Kurt Hillig]

The good news: I finally managed to get Gnucash to build without errors, 
after we got evince to build (see the e-mails a few days ago), though I 
did have to manually update guile and install slib-guile - apparently 
gnucash doesn't use guile16 and slib-guile16, even though both of these 
were built and installed as part of the gnucash build process.

(Note: my interleaved comments below are prefixed with "###" so you cspot 
them):

G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f gnucash
--->  Fetching zip
--->  Attempting to fetch zip232.tgz from ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for zip
--->  Extracting zip
--->  Configuring zip
--->  Building zip with target generic
[snip]
--->  Fetching guile16
--->  Attempting to fetch guile-1.6.8.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for guile16
--->  Extracting guile16
--->  Applying patches to guile16
--->  Configuring guile16
--->  Building guile16 with target all
--->  Staging guile16 into destroot
--->  Installing guile16 1.6.8_2+darwin_8
--->  Activating guile16 1.6.8_2+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning guile16
[snip]
--->  Fetching slib-guile16
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for slib-guile16
--->  Extracting slib-guile16
--->  Configuring slib-guile16
--->  Building slib-guile16 with target all
--->  Staging slib-guile16 into destroot
--->  Installing slib-guile16 1.0_1
--->  Activating slib-guile16 1.0_1
--->  Cleaning slib-guile16
--->  Fetching gnucash
--->  Attempting to fetch gnucash-2.2.1.tar.bz2 from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gnucash
--->  Extracting gnucash
--->  Configuring gnucash
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell 
command " cd 
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gnucash/work/gnucash-2.2.1" 
&& ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-glibtest --disable-debug 
--disable-profile --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-hbci --enable-ofx 
" returned error 1
Command output: checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking wctype.h usability... yes
checking wctype.h presence... yes
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for dlsym... yes
checking for dlerror... yes
checking for darwin... yes, moving on...
checking for qt_null in -lqthreads... no
checking for qt_null in -lqt... no
checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
checking for main in -lreadline... yes
checking for guile-config... no
checking for build-guile... (cached) no
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for main in -lrx... no
checking for qt_null in -lqt... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for t_accept in -lnsl... no
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking whether guile works... no
configure: WARNING: Can not find Guile on this system
checking for guile... no
checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= 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?  Gnucash requires at least version 1.6 to build.


Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

### I installed guile manually:

G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f guile
--->  Fetching gmp
--->  Attempting to fetch gmp-4.2.2.tar.bz2 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
--->  Extracting gmp
--->  Configuring gmp
--->  Building gmp with target all
--->  Staging gmp into destroot
--->  Installing gmp 4.2.2_1
--->  Activating gmp 4.2.2_1
--->  Cleaning gmp
--->  Fetching guile
--->  Attempting to fetch guile-1.8.3.tar.gz from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for guile
--->  Extracting guile
--->  Applying patches to guile
--->  Configuring guile
--->  Building guile with target all
--->  Staging guile into destroot
--->  Installing guile 1.8.3_0+darwin_8
--->  Activating guile 1.8.3_0+darwin_8
--->  Cleaning guile

### After installing guile I found the dependency on slib-guile:

G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f gnucash
--->  Configuring gnucash
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell 
command " cd 
"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_gnucash/work/gnucash-2.2.1" 
&& ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-glibtest --disable-debug 
--disable-profile --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-hbci --enable-ofx 
" returned error 1
Command output: checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking mcheck.h usability... no
checking for mcheck.h... no
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking wctype.h usability... yes
checking wctype.h presence... yes
checking for wctype.h... yes
checking for dlsym... yes
checking for dlerror... yes
checking for darwin... yes, moving on...
checking for qt_null in -lqthreads... no
checking for qt_null in -lqt... no
checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
checking for main in -lreadline... yes
checking for guile-config... yes
checking whether guile-config works... yes
checking for sin in -lm... yes
checking for guile libraries... -D_THREAD_SAFE  -lguile -lltdl 
-L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -lgmp -lm -lltdl
checking for guile headers... -I/opt/local/include -D_THREAD_SAFE
checking whether guile works... yes
checking for guile... /opt/local/bin/guile
checking for guile - 1.6.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
checking for guile - 1.8.0 <= version < 99.99.99... yes: 1.8.3
checking for SLIB support... configure: error:

    Cannot find SLIB.  Are you sure you have it installed?
    See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922



Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

### The error message here is misleading - it says "SLIB" but it really 
### means "slib-guile" - which I discovered by installing slib (and a few 
other things) with no effect):

G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f slib-guile
--->  Fetching slib-guile
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for slib-guile
--->  Extracting slib-guile
--->  Configuring slib-guile
--->  Building slib-guile with target all
--->  Staging slib-guile into destroot
--->  Installing slib-guile 1.0_2
--->  Activating slib-guile 1.0_2
Warning: File /opt/local/share/guile/slib already exists.  Moving to: 
/opt/local/share/guile/slib.mp_1200717763.
--->  Cleaning slib-guile
G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f gnucash
--->  Configuring gnucash
--->  Building gnucash with target all
--->  Staging gnucash into destroot
--->  Installing gnucash 2.2.1_2+guile16
--->  Activating gnucash 2.2.1_2+guile16
--->  Cleaning gnucash


### So, finally, I fire up X11 and in the xterm window I start gnucash:

G5Q:khillig > gnucash
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.

Backtrace:
In current input:
    1: 0* [gnc:reldate-initialize]
In /opt/local/share/gnucash/scm/date-utilities.scm:
  844: 1* [gnc:make-reldate-hash #(() () () () ...) (# # # # ...)]
  382: 2  (map (lambda (reldate) (hash-set! hash # reldate)) reldate-list)

/opt/local/share/gnucash/scm/date-utilities.scm:382:3: In expression (map (lambda # #) reldate-list):
/opt/local/share/gnucash/scm/date-utilities.scm:382:3: Unbound variable: map


### AAARRRGGGHHH!


I suspect this is all tied up somehow in the guile/guile16 and 
slib-guile/slib-guile16 confusion.  I could try removing guile and 
symlinking it to guile16 (or vice versa), ditto for slib-guile - but 1) I 
don't know what all of these even do, and 2) it's a lot of work to find 
all the things that might need to be symlinked, and to get them all right, 
and to undo later if it doesn't work.  So I'm hoping someone who's done 
this before will have a solution handy so I don't have to experiment with 
all this...

                             Dr. Kurt Hillig
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