gnucash will not install/run.... [SOLVED]

[Eric Schuele]

On 10/21/06 12:38, Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 10/20/06 20:05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-Oct-20 08:15:22 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
>>> I have tried this and many other variants.  Not quite sure what else 
>>> to do here.  It is installed now.  All necessary dependencies are 
>>> present. It simply segfaults when I start it.
>>
>> Likewise here - on both i386 and amd64.  I've also compared the
>> contents of /usr/{X11R6,local} with pkg_info -aL to check for obvious
>> crud to no avail.  The SEGV occurs immediately after it reads
>> /usr/local/share/themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc but I haven't traced it
>> any further.
>>
> 
> Ok... the fix for me was to downgrade g-wrap to that which existed
> before they committed GNOME 2.16.1.
> 
>  From portdowngrade:
> number         date         portversion  comment
>     1  2006/10/17 21:24:04  1.3.4        - Back out of 1.9.6 and back
> down to 1
>     2  2006/10/14 08:35:12  1.9.6_2      Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for
> FreeBSD.
>     3  2006/07/02 04:03:10  1.3.4_9      Add missing library archives.
> 
> I selected #3 (v1.3.4_9).
> 
> So for me it went like this:
> 
>  1) portdowngrade g-wrap
>  2) setenv FORCE_PKG_REGISTER yes
>      (needed because slib-guile will complain)
>  3) portupgrade -f g-wrap
>  4) Don't forget to use pkgtools.conf to hold the port for now.
> 
> Seems to run fine now.
> 
> Obviously something is wrong in what they rolled it back to.
> 

After looking a little bit more...
It appears there is a patch file (patch-aa) missing from the 1.3.4,1 
version of the port that is present in 1.3.4_9.  If its necessary I 
don't know... but that is one difference between the two ports.  So I 
thought I'd mention it.

-- 
Regards,
Eric