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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:14:04 -0500
To: Rohan Shah <rshah3 AT cs DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Cc: gnucash-user AT lists DOT gnucash DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: gnucash and cygwin
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From: linas AT linas DOT org (Linas Vepstas)

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:07:29PM -0400, Rohan Shah was heard to remark:
> I'm trying to configure gnucash for cygwin. I get the following error 
> even though I have glib installed (I installed it using setup.exe 
> (GNOME2->glib version 2.2.1-2):
> 
> checking for GLIB - version >= 0.99.7... no

its looking for glib.pc (in my case its at /usr/lib/pkgconfig/glib.pc)

> sucessfully installed gnucash on cygwin? thanks in advance,

I can't figure out how to say this without a tone of voice that sounds
snooty, but ... why bother? Cygwin is ugly and sinful, it would be so
much easier for you to switch lock stock & barrel to linux, than to 
try to force windows to do things microsoft doesn't want it to do ... 

--linas

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