making on a fresh install

[Bryan Larsen]

Hello again, some of you may remember me.

I'm not sure if I'll have time to get into devlopment again.  I'm not
quite as busy at work, but I'm taking a ballroom dancing instructor's
course, and that's eating up almost 20 hours a week.

But it'd sure be fun to do some scheme coding again...

I wanted to check out to see how you guys were doing, so I tried
building on a fairly fresh debian machine, with a task-ximian-gnome
installed from red carpet.

Here are the packages I would recommend adding to task-gnucash-devel:

autoconf 
automake
m4 
gettext
libgal-dev
libunicode-dev
liboaf-dev
libbonobo-dev
the guppi deb's on the server
the g-wrap deb's on the server
texinfo

Then for the tough one.  I got an error about a missing require.scm.
When I did a find on require.scm, I found two of them in the system.
However, a mailing list search did get me something.

So I also had to do a:

ln -s /usr/share/slib /usr/share/guile/slib

I tried to run gnucash without a "make install" but I gave up.

then I got the 

ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/slibcat"

so I ran it as root once.

I created a set of accounts (using the wizard).  Before I added any
transactions or opening balances, I tried to save.  This crashed it.

I did much the same thing, and it crashed again.

Then when I tried to run it, I got:

gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "ui-startup-hook
  #<procedure ()>
  #<procedure gnc:extensions-menu-setup ()>
  #<procedure gnc:report-menu-setup ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "book-closed-hook
  #<procedure gnc:main-window-book-close-handler (book-url)>
Backtrace:
 0* [gnc:main]
 1* (letrec ((handle-batch-mode-item (lambda # #))) (gnc:startup) ...)
 2* (if (null? gnc:*batch-mode-things-to-do*) (begin # # ...) ...)
 3  (begin # # # ...)
 4* (if (and # # #) (begin # #) (begin # # # ...))
 5  (begin (gnc:load-account-file) (gnc:default-ui-start) ...)
 6* [gnc:load-account-file]
 7  (let ((file #)) (if file (and # #) ...))
    ...
 8  (and (not #) (gnc:hook-run-danglers gnc:*book-opened-hook* #f))
 9* [not ...
10* [gnc:ui-open-file "/home/blarsen/b2"]
11* [gnc:hook-run-danglers # #f]
12* [for-each #<procedure #> #]
13* [#<procedure #> #<procedure gnc:main-window-book-close-handler #>]
14* [apply #<procedure gnc:main-window-book-close-handler (book-url)>
(#f)]
15  [gnc:main-window-book-close-handler #f]
16  (let* (# # #) (if # #) (if conf-file-name #) ...)
17* (if (not (access? file-dir X_OK)) (mkdir file-dir 448))
18  [mkdir "/home/blarsen/.gnucash/books" 448]

/usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/main-window.scm:126:39: In procedure
mkdir in expression (mkdir file-dir 448):
/usr/local/share/gnucash/scm/main-window.scm:126:39: No such file or
directory


I fixed that one by doing a "mkdir ~/.gnucash".

that'll be a trivial bug to fix, but I'm not sure what the first two
crashes were, and the info is gone now.

have fun
Bryan

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Bryan Larsen, Senior Software Engineer & Gate Man

(613) 239-3830 x237, fax: (613) 239-0104
Analog Design Automation:  Analog Circuit Synthesis?  Problem Solved.