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I'm using SBo script to compile gnucash, with all the listed dependencies built successfully (in orderly manner). System multilib is configured as per alien's wiki. Is there something else I'm missing here?

You did not post enough of the build log to see what the error is.

you could also provide more info, like whether you've made your own selection of packages from the official slackware installation, or did you do a full install?
use a service like http://pastebin.com/ to paste a larger select of the output.

additionally, there is a MAINTAINER listed in the $PRGNAM.info file. frequently, you may do well to ping them if you have exhausted your own research/investigation into the issue.

take care,

I'll have to recompile to get the error messages again. Did anyone succeed in getting gnucash to work at all in 13.1?

I almost gave up on this gnome stuff.

they test the packages in SBo before publishing, but occassionally, one of the dependencies will be upgraded, and break a build like gnucash.

It appears that goffice was upgraded since the 13.1 branch release
and the gnucash build is failing due this,
i'll take a look into this and respond shortly.

Take care,

Ugh goffice... I have been disappointed in SBo's choice in version for goffice. goffice 7.x series requires the gnome component of libgsf. It can only be created at compile time along with the same root pacakge as libgsf. However, that requires all the extra gnome libraries you installed. I believed it to be a mistake that 7.0 compiled without gnome libgsf. But now I'm confused as 0.8.6 compiles fine without it.

Additionally, the 8.x series seems completely incompatible with goffice at the moment. The gog-style.h file is not included in the 8.x series at least from the 0.8.6 version. This is probably indirectly documented somewhere in the change logs, however I could not find any direct mention to gog-style.h in them.

Either way, this means that the last complete stable version of goffice that's compatible with Slackware and the ONE program (gnucash) that uses it should be version 0.6.6. Really if you look hard at it anyway, gnucash is designed to use goffice 0.5.x series anyway, so maybe we should all be using goffice 0.5.4

submitted to SBo, but for early adopters, http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/...gnucash.tar.gz

Take care,

Thanks for the slackbuild script. It worked! Here's a screenshot.
The built-in docs/tutorial is not available, but can be accessed via the gnucash site.

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Isn't it better to just use goffice 0.6.6? Is there even anything else on SlackBuilds that uses goffice?

Additionally, if that small of a patch could solve the issue, then I'm sure gnome slack build would continue to support gnucash with version 2.30 for Slackware 13.1.

You may make the program unstable if you don't know the intricacies of goffice and making those changes.

This is why Slackware finds the best versions of dependencies to reduce the number of patches on vanilla packages.


EDIT:
Hrmmms... Well gnumeric, goffice, and libgsf all seem to be tied together in the same project. Gnumeric may not be optimal with older versions of goffice.

Either way, Moving forward, slackbuilds may need a build script to compile a companion package that contains the gnome portion of libgsf.

Kudos, vbatts! I hit the same roadblock today (missing gog-style.h error). Thanks!