How to install gnucash-1.2.5 on SuSE-6.3
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(written 2000-01-07 by Peter Pointner <peter@wuzel.m.isar.de>)

Notes:

- This is only one way to get GnuCash running on SuSE 6.3. 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 definitely for SuSE 6.3 (Intel). Earlier SuSE distributions
  lack some required packages. Later SuSE distributions didn't exist
  at the time of writing.

Let's go:

* Make sure you have a running system, including X. For my tests I
  started with a default installation and removed some packages to
  save diskspace.

* Install the following packages:
  + from series d
       eperl  guile  nana  swig  xmhtml  xmhtmld
    and optionally
       autoconf  automake  libtool
    (You must install libtool if you have autoconf/automake
    installed!) 
  + from series x
       xdevel
  + from series xdev
       lesstiff  lesstifd

* Download slib from
    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/jacal/slib2c7.zip
  and install it by unpacking it to /usr/share/guile (this will
  create a sub-directory slib):
    cd /usr/share/guile
    su root -c "unzip -L /tmp/slib2c7"

* Download GnuCash from
    http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-1.2.5.tar.gz
  and unpack it
    tar xzf gnucash-1.2.5.tar.gz

* Now apply the patch at the end of this file. The first hunk will
  make the file selection box work with lesstiff-0.89.1, the version
  which comes with SuSE 6.3. It should not hurt with other versions.
      The second hunk changes a hardcoded path to match the default
  installation prefix. This change stops gnucash from crashing when
  showing a report. You can apply this patch by something like
    cd gnucash-1.2.5
    patch -p1 < ../README-SuSE-6.3
 
* Configure, build and install gnucash. Installation must probably be
  done as root, the files go to various places in /usr/local.

    cd gnucash-1.2.5
    ./configure
    make
    su root -c "make install"


=================== patch follows ========================

diff -ru gnucash-1.2.5/src/motif/FileBox.c gnucash-1.2.5.patched/src/motif/File
Box.c
--- gnucash-1.2.5/src/motif/FileBox.c	Mon Oct 18 06:18:29 1999
+++ gnucash-1.2.5.patched/src/motif/FileBox.c	Fri Jan  7 22:25:17 2000
@@ -208,8 +208,10 @@
   {
   char **fileName = (char **)cd;
   ENTER("closeBoxCB");
-  *fileName = NULL;
-  done = True;
+  if (! done) {
+    *fileName = NULL;
+    done = True;
+  }
   LEAVE("closeBoxCB");
   }
 
diff -ru gnucash-1.2.5/src/reports/Sheet.c gnucash-1.2.5.patched/src/reports/Sh
eet.c
--- gnucash-1.2.5/src/reports/Sheet.c	Tue Jul  6 08:44:52 1999
+++ gnucash-1.2.5.patched/src/reports/Sheet.c	Fri Jan  7 22:40:35 2000
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
    }
 
    /* hack afreakin lert -- this path should not be hard-coded ... */
-   fullpath = strdup ("/usr/lib/gnucash/");
+   fullpath = strdup ("/usr/local/lib/gnucash/");
    
    fprintf (to_perl,
        "<: \n"