How to keep 1.4.8 & build development version?

[Dave Peticolas]

Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes:
> Hi
> 
> My basic question is as the subject says: I want to have both a
> development version and a production version of gnucash.
> 
> Some more explanation:
> 
> I have gnucash 1.4.8 which I want to keep on using; don't want to
> trust my data to the latest development version.
> 
> I got the latest sources via cvs and attempted the autogen.sh.
> I installed all the missing libraries (so many!) until I got to 
> 
> configure: warning: guile check failed
> configure: error: 
> 
>   g-wrap does not appear to be installed correctly, or is not new
>   enough.  Right now gnucash requires at least version 1.1.5 to build.
>   If you need to install g-wrap, you can find it at
>   ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap.
> 
> So I ftp'd libgwrapguile-dev_1.1.8-0.1_i386.deb and
> libgwrapguile2_1.1.8-0.1_i386.deb. (I run Debian sid, btw.)
> 
> I copied the debs to /var/cache/apt/archives.
> 
> dpkg -i libgwrapguile2...  But, can't install libgwrapguile2 because
> it conflicts with libgwrapguile0; I cannot remove libgwrapguile0
> because gnucash 1.4.8 depends on it.
> 
> So, how do I build the development version and not have it conflict
> with the existing 1.4.8?

You will need to compile one of the g-wraps (I suggest 1.1.8) and
install it in a separate location (say /usr/local/opt/g-wrap).
You will need to pass --with-g-wrap-prefix=DIR where DIR is the
directory you choose to install g-wrap.

You use the prefix argument to configure (--prefix=/usr/local/opt/g-wrap)
to specify where to install g-wrap.


> A 2nd related question: what's the normal procedure after you've done
> the cvs update thing?  make, configure, what?

Usually just 'make' will work, but in some cases you will need to
rerun ./autogen.sh. Try 'make' first.


> And how do I specify where the binary goes or what's called so it
> won't conflict with 1.4.8?

The same as you do with g-wrap, using a --prefix=DIR argument
to autogen.sh.

dave