Compiling gnucash source from svn

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com>:

> Hi there,
>
>    I grabbed an SVN snapshot of gnucash so I could tweak and fix some 
> things, but when I try to build it, autogen.sh fails with the 
> following error:
>
> src/report/utility-reports/test/Makefile.am:16: shell 
> ${top_srcdir}/src/gnc-test-env --no-exports ${GNC_TEST_DEPS}: 
> non-POSIX variable name
> src/report/utility-reports/test/Makefile.am:16: (probably a GNU make 
> extension)
> src/tax/us/test/Makefile.am:4: `:='-style assignments are not portable
> src/tax/us/test/Makefile.am:11: `:='-style assignments are not portable
> src/tax/us/test/Makefile.am:11: shell ${top_srcdir}/src/gnc-test-env 
> --no-exports ${GNC_TEST_DEPS}: non-POSIX variable name
> src/tax/us/test/Makefile.am:11: (probably a GNU make extension)
> **Error**: automake failed.
>
> Anyone know what's the problem here ?

Not with just the snippet you put here... These are all warnings.
The actual failure is much earlier in the output; probably very
early in the output.  Most likely you're missing some -devel package.
It probably says something about a missing macro.

> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho

-derek

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