Error installing gnu cash with +quartz

[Gustavo Seabra]

Em 05/06/2014, à(s) 13:35, David Evans <devans at macports.org> escreveu:

> On 6/5/14 3:18 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>> Em 04/06/2014, à(s) 23:51, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com> escreveu:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> I’m trying to install gnucash by following the instructions here:
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail
>>> 
>>> According to them, it gnucash needs to use xquartz, so that’s what I’m using.
>>> 
>>> However, after a long, long time, the installation stops with the message below. Isn’t it possible to install gnucash with xquartz anymore?
>>> 
>>> ​It looks like not all of the variants are getting set appropriately in the dependencies (either that or some of the dependencies were already installed without the proper variants).  If I had to guess, I would say it's probably a subtle error with some of the MacPorts dependency trees.
>>> 
>>> You can try rebuilding libcanberra with the +x11 variant and then try gnucash again.  This is the approach I've used in the past when I've gotten similar errors.  It sometimes takes a bit of prodding (basically doing this over and over for all unsatisfied dependencies until it works).
>>> 
>>> All the best,
>>> Jason
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Jason M. Swails
>>> BioMaPS,
>>> Rutgers University
>>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Hi Jason,
>> 
>> I’m actually trying to build a non-x11, “native” osx build, so building with +x11 might not be the best way to go here. But I’ll keep that in mind in case it’s really needed.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Gustavo Seabra
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Gustavo --
> 
> I spent some time last night and this morning trying to work around
> various issues regarding the build of gnucash with +quartz -x11 and was,
> in the end, unsuccessful.  But I now see where some of the problems lie:
> 
> First, the libcanberra error cited is a red herring.  libcanberra is a
> dependency of yelp, which due to its current design requires X11, i.e.
> the code uses direct X11 API with no quartz alternative, rather than
> sticking to the GTK+ API.  This is also true for some of its
> dependencies. The way to fix this is to remove gnucash's run time
> dependency on yelp when building +quartz.
> 
> Secondly, having gotten rid of the yelp/libcanberra issue, the build
> fails because dependency webkit-gtk-2.0 currently fails to build with
> the +quartz variant.  I thought this could be circumvented by using the
> gtkhtml variant which claims to allow use of libgtkhtml3 as a substitute for
> webkit-gtk but that variant is now obsolete -- the current version of
> gnucash only accepts webkit-gtk, libgtkhtml3 support has been removed.
> 
> So that's the sticking point for now.  Will look into the webkit-gtk
> build issue.
> 
> For now, your best bet is to build the X11 version of gnucash.
> 
> Dave Evans

In this case, I suppose just removing the extra lines in /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf, uninstalling and cleaning and reinstalling gnucash and then trying the port install command should be enough, right?

Thanks a lot!

Gustavo.