Re: Gnucash errors in unstable
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:56, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote:
> David Z Maze wrote:
> > Have you looked at the Debian Bug Tracking System? There are, in
> > fact, bugs against both gnucash (184683) and libgwrapguile1 (184681)
> > about this. (http://bugs.debian.org/) Poking around suggests that
> > the actual bug involves (use-modules (g-wrap gw-wct)) in
> > /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm, which probably
> > causes Guile to try to load libgw-wct.so as a dynamically loaded
> > module; thus, libgw-wct.so doesn't show up as a direct dependency of
> > gnucash, but libgwrapguile1 doesn't provide the .so link since this
> > generally isn't done for real library packages.
> >
>
> I just did a fresh sid install of gnucash
>
> After applying the fixes from the bts (first I just created the symlinks
> per 184845, then installed all of libgwrapguile-dev per 184681/184683)
> I can start the application by cancelling out of the initial popup box,
> or selecting "create a new account". If I select the "View new user
> documentation" option however, or enter the app & then select the
> tutorial documentation from the "Help" menu, a little "help topics"
> window pops up for a second, and it all crashes with this:
>
> kenneth@enlil:~$ gnucash
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
> ?: 0* [gnc:find-doc-file "help-search-index.db"]
> ?: 1* [gnc:find-localized-file "help-search-index.db" #]
> ?: 2 (letrec ((locale-prefixes #)) (letrec (#) (loop #
> base-directories)))
> ...
> ?: 3 [loop ...
> In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
> 329: 4* [locale-prefixes]
> 319: 5 (let* ((locale #) (strings #)) (reverse (cons "C" strings)))
> 321: 6* (cond ((not (string? locale)) ()) ((equal? locale "C") ()) ...)
>
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:321:21: In expression
> (cond (# ()) (# ()) ...):
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:321:21: missing or
> extra expression
>
>
> I think I get the gist of David's message, but I can't tell if this is
> whole new bug, a little drek leftover from the old bug, or some other
> problem specific to me (locales again?)
>
> Does anybody else experience this?
Yes. I am trying to get gnucash 1.8.2 to work on my gnome2.2 backport,
and I have the same problems. I compiled libgwrapguile1 1.3.4-6 (the
updated one) with no change. I am going back to compiling gnucash
against guile1.4 until this smoothes out and see what happens.
Jamie
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