Problem compiling gnucash-1-8-branch

[Tim Wunder]

On Friday 06 February 2004 4:23 pm, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried this on my FC-1 vmware install (sorry for taking so
> long, 

Not a problem in the least. Usually, I'm a rather patient person (with the 
noted exception of dealing with teenage sons...)

>...but I couldn't get to my vmware disk for a while).  Unfortunately
> I cannot reproduce this problem.  The code builds just fine for me.
>
> This is what I did:
>   cvs -q -d :pserver:... co -r gnucash-1-8-branch -P gnucash
>   cd gnucash
>   emacs configure.in
>     <remove po/Makefile intl/Makefile from the OUTPUT_FILES macro>

So I should try removing po/Makefile intl/Makefile from the OUTPUT_FILES macro 
in configure.in? I'll try that and report back, I guess. FWIW, Head has built 
fine 3 or 4 times (via a similar bash script) since I sent my original email.

>   ./autogen ....
>   make
>
> So, I don't know what to tell you.  I suspect this is a problem in
> your environment or your checkout -- it's definitely not a problem
> with gnucash.  Or at least I cannot reproduce it on my FC1 machine.
>

Thanks, 
Tim

> -derek
>
> Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> writes:
> > Hi,
> > I was on IRC a couple days ago with a problem compiling CVS' 1.8 branch,
> > but couldn't hang around long enough for warlord to help me. So, I've
> > taken the time to start from scratch and try to compile from a clean
> > source tree to see if that'll work. Well, it doesn't.
> > For the record, I'm running Fedora Core 1, as updated from RHL 8.0. I've
> > recently updated, compiled and install gnucash's CVS HEAD. The 1.8
> > branch, however is a different story.
> > This is the error I'm getting:
> > Making all in core-utils
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/data/CVS/gnucash/src/core-utils'
> > rm -f gnucash g-wrapped
> > ln -sf . gnucash
> > ln -sf . g-wrapped
> > for X in gw-core-utils-spec.scm ; do \
> >   ln -sf /data/CVS/gnucash/src/core-utils/$X . ; \
> > done
> > ln: `/data/CVS/gnucash/src/core-utils/gw-core-utils-spec.scm' and
> > `./gw-core-utils-spec.scm' are the same file
> > make[3]: *** [.scm-links] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/CVS/gnucash/src/core-utils'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/CVS/gnucash/src'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/CVS/gnucash'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> >
> > I configured with:
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnucash-CVS --enable-maintainer-mode
> > --enable-sql
> >
> > Any ideas? Do you need more info to troubleshoot this?
> >