Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>]

I would like to try out the new GnuCash 1.7.7.  It has some small business 
features I'd find helpful, and is supposed to have an easier way to handle 
foreign currency exchange, among many other new features.

I want to install it on a PowerPC woody system, a Mac 8500.

GnuCash 1.7.7 is available in unstable.  I know how I can use apt pinning to 
install an unstable package in a stable system.  However, I'm concerned because 
GnuCash has many dependencies.  Trying to install the unstable 1.7.7 in my 
woody system might clobber it because so many dependencies from unstable will 
get installed.

So what I think I would like to do is download the 1.7.7 debian sources, and 
compile it on my woody system.  I would need to make sure I had all the 
dependencies, but I would be getting stable dependencies.

I've managed to compile debian packages before but I've only done it a couple 
times.

GnuCash is supposed to be rather daunting to compile yourself, because it has 
so many dependencies.

Would this have the desired effect?  Can anyone tell me if GnuCash 1.7.7 
requires dependencies, or versions of them, that aren't available at all in Woody?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

Mike
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