gnucash on amd64 6.2-stable pkg_add runs, but app fails

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:58:36 -0600, perlcat <perlcat at alltel.net> wrote:

> Having no end of trouble getting gnucash going.
>
> Running pkg_add -r gnucash installs the app with minor dependency issues
> (fixed the major ones already)
>
>  ran cvsup yesterday, so sources are pretty current. make buildworld and
> rebuilt kernel (to add options SMP...) ran without error 4 days ago.  
> Linux
> compat and all other apps I've installed run great (except acpi -- it  
> freaks
> when the sleep button is pressed...)
>
>
>
>
> When I run gnucash from command line, it waits about 3 minutes before the
> splash comes up, and eventually fails with this message:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0* [primitive-load-path "hbci/hbci.scm"]
>
> <unnamed port>: In procedure primitive-load-path in expression
> (primitive-load-path name):
> <unnamed port>: Unable to find file "hbci/hbci.scm" in load path
>
> I'm not in the slightest interested in the home banking client  
> interface. Is
> there a place to remark that out?
>
>
>
>
> If I cd to /usr/ports/finance/gnucash and do a make install clean, that  
> fails
> with:
>
> configure: error: "libffi has not been ported to  
> amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2."
> configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libffi
>
> libffi isn't ported to amd64, so you can't get there from here. I found  
> a new
> port of it, but it doesn't seem to be recognized after I'd built and
> installed it.
>
>
>
>
> downloaded source for gnucash 2.0.5 -- it fails on configure with this
> message:
>
> checking for popt.h... yes
> checking for poptStrippedArgv in -lpopt... no
> configure: error:
>
>   popt 1.5 or newer is required to build gnucash.
>
> I'm wondering if I need to do something about my libpath for the second  
> two
> errors -- but it's late, I'm about to give up, and I need to wake up in  
> an
> hour or so to go to work. Once again, I've "Just one more thing'ed"  
> myself
> into 3:00 am, right at the point where I am doing more harm than good.  
> Am I
> on the right track with libpath? Any pointers?

I have committed the fixes, thanks to Peter Jeremy for his test/debug.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks!


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