Fresh build of jhbuild and gnucash on OSX

[David Reiser]

On Apr 22, 2011, at 2:05 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Brad Grupczynski wrote:
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>> This process has felt like a rite of passage.
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>> I'm wondering if I did everything in a way that I have a good build.
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>> I was going to work on the OFX/aqbanking parser. Importing from a file and importing online data parses differently. I have been importing from a file and have switched to online and don't 
>> want the change. Plus it's just wrong that there are two parsers.
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>> I have been trying to build consistently for the past week. Trying different things and basically "tuning" my brain.
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>> I have been successful in making some changes in the code, building (in Eclipse) and copying the dylibs to the correct spot in my existing installed location (not the one that make install generates). But this was just to play around. Now I want to do this for real.
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>> (So sorry that this email is a little large but I like to provide a lot of detail. If this is not acceptable, let me know how to break it down. I didn't want to break it into an email for every failure but I could do that. I've joined the mailing list and registered in bugzilla. Anything else I should do to be a good contributor?)
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> The build instructions need some updating, it seems.
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> For where you are now, you need to run "gnucash-launcher" instead of gnucash.
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> I usually build a release build all the way through and then go back and "buildone --force --clean" glib, gobject, gtk+, gwenhywfar, aqbanking, and gnucash. (You have to do them one at a time, unfortunately).
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> I also usually build with the Leopard SDK, since that's what I'm targetting for distribution. That difference is probably why you had trouble with guile and gnutls.
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> If you want to contribute, please use gnucash-svn and update it frequently so that your patches will match the current trunk.
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> You'll need to work closely with Christian Stimming on ditching libofx; he's the only one here who really understands aqbanking and gwenhywfar.
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> Thanks for the feedback, and I'm looking forward to losing yet another dependency!
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> Regards,
> John Ralls


Before you ditch libofx, be sure aqbanking can import investment data streams. Libofx does a decent job with investment ofx files. Aqbanking didn't come close the last time I checked (though it has been several months since I tried it.)

Dave
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