Continuing problems with GnuCash

[Triston Whetten]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 18:27, Kurt Hillig wrote:
>
>> 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_gnom 
>> e_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_gnom 
>> e_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...
>
> As I understand it, gnucash does not work with guile 1.8. Therefore  
> the gnucash port was changed to depend on guile16. But gnucash  
> perhaps s


Take a look at ticket #13472 (gloss over the title and look through  
it anyway).  The basic problem appears to be the incomplete  
installation of guile16 and/or the incomplete isolation of the  
guile16 port from the guile port.  A complicated juggling act at the  
very least...

Gnucash has a default variant of guile16.  According to the wiki at  
gnucash (which could be out of date), 1.8.1 is still not supported.

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail#guile_1.8.1