Build and run in separate directory - OSX?

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 12, 2006 9:02:39 AM +0000 Neil Williams 
<linux at codehelp.co.uk> wrote:

>> I then cd'ed
>> into /tools/gnucash-1.9/build/ *darwin*
>
> _darwin_ - this would be OSX? 10.3 or 10.4?
>
> Fink? DarwinPorts?
>
> I build gnucash svn regularly on OSX 10.3 using fink. The OSX/Fink
> maintainer  for gnucash (Peter O'Gorman) also builds 1.8 and (IIRC)
> svn on 10.4? (Peter?)
>

Yes, I'm using MacOSX, but not the Fink version of gnucash (I used Fink 
for some of the prereqs simply because it was the easiest way to get 
them).  I'm building it from the svn source (as I said in my message). 
My build builds cleanly (with no compiler warnings) and runs fine.  I'm 
not looking for advice on how to build gnucash, I'm just offering you 
fixes that make it build better.  If you don't want them, so be it. 
They work for me and I'll keep merging them into your changes.

> There is no need to build and run in separate directories for darwin.

Of course not.  As I said, I'm using existing build tools (ported to 
Darwin from Linux, Solaris, HP/UX, and AIX) that happen to do this. 
They were written to support building for several architectures from 
the same source so they build into an architecture specific directory. 
The person who wrote them (not me) happened to use a hierarchy where 
the build directory is not a sibling of the source directory.  That is 
what is causing the problems here.

> For the 1.9.0 distribution tarball, omit the call to autogen.sh
>
> If this is darwin and you don't substitute glibtool or set the path
> to look  in /sw/bin before anywhere else (or whatever other prefix
> you've set for  fink), gnucash may get so far but it will not link
> successfully. It leads to  some nasty (and misleading) error messages
> and crashes.
>
> Ditto the prefix to call guile16-build.
>

I'm not using the tarball.  I've got my path set up to find the things 
gnucash needs.  It builds, links, and runs fine.

>>         --enable-maintainer-mode \
>
> This should not be specified when building from a distribution
> tarball - it's  intended for svn builds (but I think it actually does
> nothing in the current  gnucash build anyway).
>
>>         --enable-compiler-warnings=minimum \
>
> To get gnucash to work, you'll need to up that level or just leave
> off the  =minimum.

I'm not using the tarball and I don't get any compiler warnings.  I put 
the maintainer-mode setting in because some readme file said to.  I 
agree that it doesn't seem to do anything.  At any rate, it isn't the 
problem.

Just because I'm using Darwin doesn't mean I'm an idiot or a novice. 
Like it or not, Darwin is now the most widely used desktop Unix system 
and making gnucash work well on it is in the best interest of the 
gnucash project.  However, I don't think any of the problems I've 
submitted patches for are Darwin specific.  I could reproduce them on 
Solaris or Linux, but it probably isn't worth the trouble.

-- 
Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6