Res: Compiling gnucash source from svn

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com>:

> Hi Derek,
>
>    thanks for the tip. You were right.. Looking back at the output I 
> found that it was missing the AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2 macro. Installing
> libgconf2-dev along with some dependencies solved the problem.

Glad to hear it..

> Well... I really do miss the good old times when we just untarred, 
> tweaked a Makefile according to the SO and did a make... :-)

Well, if you downloaded the GnuCash tarball you WOULD have been
able to do that.  But you chose to build from SVN instead, so that's
an extra set of dependencies that you added.

> Regards,
>
> Renato Moutinho

-derek

> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> Para: Renato Moutinho <rmsilva_br at yahoo.com>
> Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> Enviadas: Sábado, 15 de Dezembro de 2007 10:37:02
> Assunto: Re: Compiling gnucash source from svn
>
> 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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