From ee447a796e0befb0c56e75249e4a67057b9bf94d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Stimming Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:24:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove very old and very obsolete build instructions git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@15064 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- doc/Makefile.am | 1 - doc/build-suse.txt | 105 --------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 106 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 doc/build-suse.txt diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am index a0e9cff388..525ff69542 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.am +++ b/doc/Makefile.am @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ TRANSLATION_HOWTO \ build-aix.txt \ build-solaris.txt \ - build-suse.txt \ generic_objects.txt \ gnome-hackers.txt \ gnc-prices.1.in \ diff --git a/doc/build-suse.txt b/doc/build-suse.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8523f869b4..0000000000 --- a/doc/build-suse.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ -How to install gnucash on SuSE -============================== -(written 2000-01-07 by Peter Pointner ) -(last changed 2002-08-08 by Herbert Thoma (herbie@hthoma.de)) - -Notes: - -- This is only one way to get GnuCash running on SuSE. I did test - that, but there might be errors anyway, and of course you do all at - your own risk. If you find errors, you might report them to the - gnucash mailing list (gnucash-devel@gnucash.org) - -- This is for SuSE 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 (Intel). Earlier SuSE - distributions lack some required packages. Later SuSE distributions - didn't exist at the time of writing. - NOTE: You can install new packages to older versions of SuSE from - CD or ftp.suse.de or ftp.suse.com - -- This howto is primarily intended for compiling from source. - If you install the rpm, you don't need the various dev packages - (However, you won't see this howto until you installed the - GnuCash rpm succesfully ;-).) - -- The current stable version is gnucash-1.6.x, - the current development version is gnucash-1.7.x. - -Let's go: - -* Make sure you have a running system, including X and gnome - (and don't forget the development packages) - -* Download g-wrap from - ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap/ - For the 1.6.x version you need g-wrap-1.2.1 - unpack and untar, then - ./configure, make, su, make install - - For the 1.7.x version you need g-wrap-1.3.2 - g-wrap-1.2 and g-wrap-1-3 are NOT compatible. If you want to - use both the stable and the development version of GnuCash - see the notes at the end of this file. - -* Download GnuCash - stable version: - http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-1.6.x.tar.gz - development version: - http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/ - and unpack it - tar xzf gnucash-1.y.x.tar.gz -* Alternatively get GnuCash from cvs - cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.gnucash.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot login (password guest) - cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.gnucash.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout gnucash - (this will get you the latest development version) - -* The lib directory contains packages that are needed to build GnuCash - but are not widely available yet. Read the file lib/README for details. - -* Make symbolic link for every file in /opt/gnome/share/aclocal - to /usr/share/aclocal (or tell me how to modify the automake setup - so that it looks in /opt/gnome/share/aclocal for input ;-)) - -* Configure, build and install gnucash. Installation must probably be - done as root, the files go to various places in /usr/local. - - cd gnucash-1.y.x - ./autogen.sh - make - su root -c "make install" - - To build GnuCash 1.7.x you need to add the argument --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu - to the autogen.sh command (at least with SuSE 8.0). - -* You may need to run GnuCash once as root, because guile needs to set up - some things for slib. Alternatively you can try as root: - guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'new-catalog)" - -* If want to send a patch, you need the makepatch perl module, which can - be found at: - ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/Johan_Vromans/makepatch-2.00a.tar.gz - unpack and untar, then - perl Makefile.PL, make, su, make install - - -Installing GnuCash 1.6 and 1.7 to one system: ---------------------------------------------- - -It is quite tricky to have the stable and development versions of -GnuCash running on one system, because they need incompatible -versions of g-wrap (1.2.1 resp. 1.3.2). - -On my system I have GnuCash 1.6.x and g-wrap-1.2.1 installed in the -usual location (/usr/local/). - -GnuCash 1.7.x is installed in /opt/gnucash/test_install/cvs_head -g-wrap-1.3.2 is installed in /opt/gnucash/g-wrap-latest - -To compile GnuCash 1.7.x I do: - -export PATH=/opt/gnucash/g-wrap-latest/bin:$PATH -export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gnucash/g-wrap-latest/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH - -./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnucash/test_install/cvs_head - --with-g-wrap-prefix=/opt/gnucash/g-wrap-latest --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu - -make