Broken compile on Fedora 15?

[John Ralls]

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