[Slackbuilds-users] Build failure: gnucash 2.6.19

[Lenard Spencer]

Now I remember something like that happening before.  I'll go ahead and 
make a change so that the script will error out if it finds a previous 
version installed.

On 04/01/2018 09:24 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, David O'Shaughnessy wrote:
>
>> Thanks, that was the problem. The build completes when the old 
>> version is
>> removed beforehand.
>
> Dave,
>
>   The reason is that GC hard-codes specific library versions in the 
> source.
> When the SBo script builds it finds an older version on the system 
> while the
> make file is looking for a newer version. Or vice-versa; I forget which.
> I've stumbled over this a couple of times. Now I think I'll remember the
> problem when I upgrade. :-)
>
>> Btw, it might be worth noting this potential problem in the README?
>
>   +1
>
> Rich
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