Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)

[Melinda Savoy]

David and Derek,

Thanks so much for all the help.  I am in the middle of going down the path of the fink installation.  gnuCash currently is in the middle of its install.

If this does not work I'll try David's suggestion.  As I stated previously, I'm new to the mac environment coming from  the window environment and this seems like a lot of work to install one program.  But I guess I'm spoiled.

Thanks again for your time and help.  Hopefully the gnuCash install from the fink package will be successful.

Regards.

----- Original Message ----
From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
To: Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:50:24 PM
Subject: Re: Problem installing on MacOSX (Lepoard)


On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Melinda Savoy wrote:
[snip]
> i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib: No  
> such file or directory
[snip]

This is a bug in Apple's X11 implementation. They're moving to xorg's  
X11, but they screwed up for machines that have never had 10.5 earlier  
than 10.5.2.

One of fink's x11 experts says that the command:

sudo perl -pi.bak -e 's|2.0.0|2.1.0|' /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.la

from a terminal window should fix it. (Only have to do this once,  
unless Apple breaks it again with 10.5.3.)

Also, it looks to me like Macports has fixed the guile/slib issues  
with their gnucash portfile. So, since you already have the macports  
infrastructure in place, I'd recommend you try the X11 patch, and then  
reissue the macports install command for gnucash.

If you do choose to try fink's gnucash package, it's package name is  
gnucash2. But one still launches it with just 'gnucash' in a terminal  
window.

Fink's gnucash2-docs package (the help files) does not work at the  
moment because of a gnome version mismatch problem with yelp (gnome's  
help system).

Dave
--
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net









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