Yet another configuration problem

[Jan Nielsen]

Hi again,

>>HI Derek,
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>>I managed to downgrade to automake 1.6.3 and that seems to have fixed
>>this problem (I did not touch autoconf). However, it should probably
>>be considered an error in the build system.
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>Note that automake et. al. are only necessary for building from CVS --
>you do not need it to build from the tarballs.  We developers
>specifically use _DISTRIBUTED_ software and not bleeding-edge
>software.  What distribution uses automake-1.7.x?
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Debian unstable

Jan

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>>That said, I think the reality of the gnucash build process gives you
>>a lot less testing than otherwise would be the case. Personally, I
>>have given up on contributing to gnucash on several occasions in the
>>past due to the complexity of getting all the necessary packages with
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>Um, when was the last time you tried?  Certainly current Red Hat,
>Debian, etc. systems have all the necessary requirements.  I admit
>that this was a HUGE problem with Gnucash-1.6 -- when it was first
>released it required bleeding-edge software.  Nowadays the various
>distributions have caught up, and gnucash-1.8 only has one requirement
>that is different than gnucash-1.6, namely an upgrade to g-wrap.
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>The only systems that have problems with dependencies are systems that
>do not distribute Gnome.  I'm sorry, but frankly if you don't have
>gnome, well, you can't build/use gnome applications.  Gnucash is a
>gnome application.
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>>correct versions put together on the same system (and then the choice
>>to use scripting; I hate scripting languages (other than bash ;-))
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>Well, your objection is duly noted.
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>>Best regards
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>>Jan
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>>PS A strange thing happen earlier in the process: I had checked out
>>from cvs doing a simple cvs checkout gnucash (which I expected to give
>>me the head on the devel branch); however, only after doing a cvs
>>update -C did I get the real build tree. I have no idea what this
>>means as to my best knowledge these two things should have resulted in
>>the same thing ;-(
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>I have no idea...  Sounds weird to me.  This certainly doesn't happen
>to me (except in the 'po' subdirectory).
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>>PPS The current CVS has lost both the calendar "arrow" and the
>>"transfer" account arrow in the ledger window, i.e. there is no way of
>>choosing the date or tranfer account apart from writing it - but at
>>least this means that I succeeded in compiling the whole thing ;-)
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>This is a known bug (see bugzilla.gnome.org -- I'd offer a bug# but I
>can't connect.)
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>-derek
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>PS: PLEASE reply to gnucash-devel!
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>>>Jan,
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>>>It's _possible_ that your versions of automake and autoconf are "too
>>>new" for Gnucash.  What happens if you downgrade to -1.6 and -2.53?
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>>>Note that the _ACTUAL_ error is:
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>>>>Running automake --gnu  ...
>>>>/tmp/t4puiJlI/traces.m4:1510: /usr/bin/m4: Error matching regular
>>>>expression "^
>>>>*\(.*\) *$"
>>>>Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/bin/automake line 5077,
>>>><GEN0> line
>>>>290.
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>>>This looks like an automake bug...
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>>>-derek
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>>>Jan Nielsen <nielsenjan@tin.it> writes:
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