first, many thanks to whomever put gnucash into the ports tree.

i thought that the someone would be interested in the problems that i ran into while installing gnucash. the first, i found a workaround for somewhere on the web (my apologies for the formatting):

--->  Fetching scrollkeeper

--->  Attempting to fetch scrollkeeper-0.3.14.tar.bz2

from

http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gnome/sources/scrollkeeper/0.3

--->  Verifying checksum(s) for scrollkeeper

--->  Extracting scrollkeeper

--->  Configuring scrollkeeper

--->  Building scrollkeeper with target all

--->  Staging scrollkeeper into destroot

--->  Packaging tgz archive for scrollkeeper 0.3.14_1

--->  Installing scrollkeeper 0.3.14_1

--->  Activating scrollkeeper 0.3.14_1

Error: Target com.apple.activate returned: Image

error: /opt/local/var/log/scrollkeeper.log already

exists and does not belong to a registered port. 

Unable to activate port scrollkeeper.

i solved the issue by deleting /opt/local/var/log/scrollkeeper.log. it seemed innocous enough. the second problem i got was:

--->  Fetching gnucash-docs

--->  Attempting to fetch gnucash-docs-2.0.0.tar.gz

from

http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/

--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gnucash-docs

--->  Extracting gnucash-docs

--->  Configuring gnucash-docs

Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: configure

failure: shell command "cd

"/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dports_gnome_gnucash-docs/work/gnucash-docs-2.0.0"

&& ./configure --prefix=/opt/local" returned error 1

Command output: checking for scrollkeeper-config... no

configure: error: Couldn't find scrollkeeper-config.

Please install the scrollkeeper package:

http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net

i solved the problem by activating scrollkeeper. apparently, deleting the log file allowed port to continue but it did not attempt to reactivate the port.

now i have one final problem to solve. gnucash compiled successfully but i can't run it. i've installed apple's x server (1.1) and i get the following error when i invoke gnucash from the terminal:

_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:0:6000: No address associated with nodename

(gnucash:8820): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  

i've searched the web and it suggests that the problem is associated with my DISPLAY environment variable. i've tried setting DISPLAY to :0.0 and localhost:0.0 in my .bashrc to no avail. any idea what i should do to correct this?

thanks in advance.

z