Broken compile on Fedora 15?
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Nov 24 12:33:02 EST 2011
On Nov 24, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Mike Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:25:07 +0100
> Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:
>
>> Am Donnerstag, 24. November 2011, 10:06:33 schrieb Mike Evans:
>>> Make on SVN trunk fails with:
>>>
>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/intl-scm'
>>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
>>> `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/src/business/business-core/gnucash/business-co
>>> re.scm', needed by `guile-strings.c'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving
>>> directory `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/intl-scm' make[1]: ***
>>> [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash' make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> Using git bisect the faulty commit appears to be r21605
>>> Output from git bisect below.
>>>
>>> $ git bisect good adea4467280732dec525697eba97694c05f52874 is
>>> the first bad commit commit adea4467280732dec525697eba97694c05f52874
>>> Author: gjanssens <gjanssens at 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd>
>>> Date: Mon Nov 21 10:40:17 2011 +0000
>>>
>>> Dissolve the business-core module, by integrating its remaining
>>> bits in the engine, where the rest already was moved before.
>>>
>>> git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@21605
>>> 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure it this peculiar to my machine. I've just upgraded from
>>> FC14 to FC15, which was less than trouble free, so that may be an
>>> issue, although unlikely.
>>
>> I had the same error, but: It's a leftover from the removal of
>> directories from the source code. It would not disappear with a clean
>> source directory. But, as this is an existing source directory, it
>> still has this obnoxious generated extra "gnucash" directory in many
>> of the source directories. Those have been generated, so they don't
>> disappear through "svn update" (git pull) alone. Instead, you have to
>> manually remove those:
>>
>> rm -rf src/business/business-core/gnucash
>>
>> and the same in business-utils and I think two more, four altogether.
>>
>> I don't know how to fix this automatically, though.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian
>
> Thanks Christian/Geert.
>
> I had assumed that a Make clean would, um, clean all the
> generated files, obviously not.
>
> Using;
> find . -type l | grep gnucash
> narrowed down the search space a little.
>
> Just compiled successfully after removing problem dirs.
Make clean doesn't remove those directories, but make maintainer-clean does.
The catch is that you have to run it *before* the (svn|git) update runs, because afterwards the Makefiles get changed and the offending directories are no longer removed.
Regards,
John Ralls
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