bug: gnucash-svn does not build

Neil Williams linux at codehelp.co.uk
Wed Jan 11 16:52:53 EST 2006


On Wednesday 11 January 2006 9:21 pm, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2006, 20:25 +0000 schrieb Neil Williams:
> > External QOF is primarily intended for packaging purposes.
>
> Now I get a bit wired.  At first you told me to use external qof because
> internal qof does not support 'make install prefix=/my/sandbox', than
> this two things do not fit together.

i.e. you are packaging. That would be fine if gnucash2 was on pre-release and 
therefore less of a moving target because I could guarantee that the libqof 
external library would support that pre-release.

> I'm packing the svn version,

which is where the problems start because svn isn't even a pre-release yet. It 
isn't exactly ready for a release, let alone packaging.

There was a query here some weeks ago about putting Gnucash2 into Debian 
experimental and it was rejected by each developer in turn.

Personally, I'm not sure why you want to package an svn revision - if we were 
confident that svn could be released, we could have made a snapshot available 
or nightly builds. I don't think I'm the only one here who thinks this would 
be still premature.

I can't even get make distcheck to complete. (That's not down to the configure 
prefixes, that's down to the internal make check tests).

QOF on the other hand, that is ready and regularly updated. I always run make 
distcheck before a commit to public CVS.

> where the person which uses my gentoo 
> ebuild, so we have always the last svn version of trunk at the time of
> installation, so I cannot go back to revision x.  I think I have to try
> to use DISTDIR, maybe this works somehow.

You do realise that svn is not guaranteed to work?
"This is a development version. It may or may not work."
"The last stable version was GnuCash 1.8.12"
"The next stable version will be GnuCash 2.0"

That message means what it says. 

It's OK if you are packaging svn as a test or to prepare a package ready for 
when the pre-release is made but IMHO, it is inadvisable to package svn for 
regular users to download.

We all know gnucash2 is eagerly awaited but I think all the gnucash developers 
want it to be READY before letting it loose on ordinary users.

I know I can't use/trust gnucash svn for my own accounting yet. It's strictly 
test data only.

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