On Feb 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
I must confess that I do not even begin to understand prebinding. Nor do I know what the OS X analog of the linux ldconfig command and configuration is. But I suspect that the answer to my problem will lie in those directions.
I've installed gnome/gnucash using macports (that was a bit of a trick because of confusion about which guile installation was needed. Gnucash configure couldn't find guile16, but I had other problems with guile 1.8. I also needed to install "+without_docs" because otherwise port tried and failed to install firefox) But I did finally get something compiled and installed.
However, it won't run, and this is what I get to standard error.
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libffi.dylib Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/ QuartzCore Reason: Incompatible library version: QuartzCore requires version 1.0.0 or later, but libffi.dylib provides version 0.0.0
I note that there is a an /opt/local/lib/libffi.dylib installed, but apparently that's not the dynamic library that gnucash finds.
As I've said, I am clueless about dynamic libraries, particularly on OS X.
I'm running OS X 10.5.1 with Xcode 3.0 on a G5 PPC.
I have also installed the update to X11 from Macosforge.
Cheers,
-j
-- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Seems to me that's x11 that's complaining about the version of libffi. Before 2.2, gnucash used g-wrap to to handle some functions, and g- wrap brought in a rather ancient version of libffi. gnucash has since switched to swig for the functions formerly handled by g-wrap, and you don't even need swig if you are building gnucash from a tarball. While I don't know anything else about your system, you might try removing g-wrap, or whatever else is supplying libffi in macports, and see if xquartz will then use the Leopard-provided /usr/lib/libffi.dylib. I use that other packaging system, so I can't swear what needs to be in place, but I don't have any libffi except /usr/lib/libffi.dylib, and gnucash works for me on an almost identical system. Dave