Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure

[Daniel Gryniewicz]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:30 -0500, mail wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:00 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:42 -0500, mail wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:18 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:01 -0500, mail wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:06 +0100, Christoph Nodes wrote:
> > > > > > There is already a bug report:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166374
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, thats Great,
> > > > > I am hoping that someone is working on it.
> > > > >
> > > > > In the mean time, it is almost tax season. Is there a simple way to
> > > > > emerge a working version for now?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > rick
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > It probably won't be fixed, since it's a glib 1.2 bug, and no one really
> > > > cars about glib 1.2.  The easiest solution is to emerge the ~arch
> > > > g-wrap, which uses glib 2.x and works fine.  It'd be nice if the scheme
> > > > guys marked that stable, but there's nothing I can do about it.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'n not too familiar with emerging things like that. How do I emerge a
> > > ~arch g-wrap? do I put something special in /etc/portage/package.use ?
> > >
> >
> > echo "=dev-libs/g-wrap-1.9.6-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
> Thanks,
> but none of the masking or keywords work. It seems that gnucash is dead.
> I wonder why it is in portage at all?
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, fixes, or real experience as how to
> emerge it before tax time that would be great! If you are using it now,
> don't emerge NuDav world whatever you do!
> rick

It's fine here;  I have a full ~amd64 system, so at least the full ~
keywords for gnucash work.

Daniel

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