trying to build gnucash

[nodje]

thanks Ryan, it works now!

On 9 Sep 2008, at 1:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2008, at 21:47, nodje wrote:
>
>> I had successfully build Gnucash in the past but its stopped  
>> working because
>> of some dependencies on Goffice.
>> I've never been able to upgrade it.
>> I tried sudo port -ufn upgrade gnucash but it ended up in:
>>
>> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... no
>> *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
>> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file  
>> config.log for
>> the
>> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly
>> installed.
>> configure: error:
>> *** GLIB >= 2.6 is required to build Gnucash; please make sure you  
>> have the
>> *** development headers installed. The latest version of GLIB is
>> *** always available at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/.
>>
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> I don't really understand this actually. Why is Macport not able to  
>> treat
>> glib as a dependency and update it? I'd be happy to upgrade it  
>> myself but
>> there's many glib available (from 'port installed').
>>
>> What am I supposed to do here? I'm looking at
>> http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/build-instructions  
>> to build
>> a Quartz compatible version of gnucash but I'd rather have it built  
>> with
>> port.
>
> What version of glib2 is installed and active? Many older versions  
> may well be installed if you've done many upgrades in the past, but  
> only one is active. Try:
>
> port installed glib2
>
> The current version of glib2 is 2.16.5 which should satisfy the  
> dependency. If somehow you have an older version than that installed  
> and active, then:
>
> sudo port upgrade glib2
>
> Or attach the aforementioned config.log so we can see what's going  
> wrong.
>