Tax report bug

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Richard -Gilligan- Uschold writes:

 > > gnucash: latest CVS
 > > guile: 1.3.4
 > > g-wrap: 0.9.12
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 > I see a possible problem, but, as I don't yet have the latest compiled, (missing dependencies) I can't check it out.
 > The problem does not seem to exist on 1.5.2 or earlier 1.4.x versions.  Could you add the line below marked with the
 > "+" between existing lines 233 and 234, in file /usr/share/gnucash/scm/report/tax.scm, and let me know if it fixes the
 > problem? (don't put in the "+"!)
 > 
 >    (let* ((notes (gnc:account-get-notes a))
 > +         (notes (if notes notes ""))
 >           (key-start (string-search notes key 0))
 
Richard, I haven't confirmed it, but I think the problem is that the
handling of null const-strings has changed in the latest g-wrap.

I think a NULL const string on the C side is converted to scheme #f.

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