This seems to work after starting from a cleaned up system.

Use standard Slackware 10.1 packages for these:
popt
guile
imlib1
db-1.85 comes with aaa_elflibs


orbit-0.5.17 must be recompiled, both for the included IDL and
	for the orbit libs also. The original Slackware packages MAY 
	work at runtime...YES, they do.

gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 must be recompiled -the slackware package
	lacks the gdk_gnome-canvas headers and libraries


compile these first:
libxml-1.8.17 -needs a link /usr/include/gnome-xml -> /usr/include/libxml
	so that GConf will find libxml. I didn't have this problem before
	maybe because of specifying --without-gnome or with-gnome= when
	compiling GConf?

libghttp gtkhtml tries and fails to find SSL support here -need to
	look for a later version.

libglade
oaf
slib2d6	I still think 3a1 will work also. The problem about needing to
	run gnucash first as root has to do with slib and guile.
	the guile.init and mklibcat.scm commands generate a new scheme
	catalog called 'slibcat'. By including this generated file we
	apparently fix that? This is, after all, a 'noarch' package...
	
These might better be built AFTER gnome-libs if really wanting full
GNOME support, or if puttin GNOME in /opt? :
GConf
bonobo
guppi


gnome-libs
gnome-print
gnome-mime-data (needed to build vfs) never seen this mentioned by anyone
	else...
gnome-vfs
gal-0.21 (later version than Slack-8.1 sources -0.19 might work
	for gnucash-1.8.4?)
control-center (needed to compile gtkhtm)
gtkhtml -this can be compiled without-bonobo but it becomes very large.

g-wrap -this could be built earlier -done here for convenient grouping

if OFX and qbanking support is wanted those libs should be compiled
	and installed now and configured into gnucash.
gnucash-1.8.11


For gnucash runtime-only, these can be removed:
GConf
control-center
gnome-mime-data
gnome-vfs

The original orbit from slackware works fine at runtime-- libIDL
may not be needed at all?