Testing a Windows build

[Derek Atkins]

Is this a clean build?
Did you remove all your previous "dependencies"?

-derek

Quoting Stephen Grant Brown <sg_brown at mcmedia.com.au>:

> Hi All,
>
> I have just updated the Packaging dir on a Windows XP Machine vi svn update.
>
> I then run install.sh.
>
> It fixed a lot of conftest.c file not found erros which previously resulted
> in install.sh not running to completion.
>
> Now I get the following
>
> Extracting goffice-0.7.2.tar.bz2 ... done
> patching file `goffice/Makefile.am'
> patching file `goffice/utils/go-file.c'
> patching file `goffice/gtk/goffice-gtk.c'
> libtoolize: `/C/soft/autotools/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' is serial 48, less
> than 52 in `aclocal.m4'
> To remain compatible, you should update your `aclocal.m4' by running
> aclocal.
>
> ---------------------------
> snip -----------------------------------------------
> checking for GOFFICE... configure: error: Package requirements (
>        glib-2.0                >= 2.8.0
>        gobject-2.0             >= 2.16.0
>        gmodule-2.0             >= 2.16.0
>        gio-2.0                 >= 2.16.0
>        libgsf-1                >= 1.14.9
>        libxml-2.0              >= 2.4.12
>        pango                   >= 1.8.1
>        pangocairo              >= 1.8.1
>        cairo                   >= 1.2.0
>        cairo-svg               >= 1.2.0
>        cairo-pdf               >= 1.2.0
>        cairo-ps                >= 1.2.0
>
>        gtk+-2.0                >= 2.6.0
>        libglade-2.0            >= 2.3.6
>
>        gconf-2.0
>        libgnomeui-2.0          >= 2.0.0
> ) were not met:
>
> Requested 'libgsf-1 >= 1.14.9' but version of libgsf-1 is 1.14.5
>
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GOFFICE_CFLAGS
> and GOFFICE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>
> What do I do to fix this?
>
> Yours sincerely Stephen Grant Brown
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: "Andreas Köhler" <andi5.py at gmx.net>
> Cc: "gnucash-devel mailing list" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>; "gnucash-user
> mailing list" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 5:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Testing a Windows build
>
>
>> Andreas,
>>
>> If you're going to do this could you also make sure to backport
>> the memory fix that causes gnucash to die when you close an invoice
>> window?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have updated a bunch of libraries used for bundling the GnuCash
>>> installer on Windows.  The two most important changes are
>>>
>>> * Update libtool.  This greatly reduces compilation times, mainly for
>>> developers.
>>>
>>> * Update GTK+ and remove libgnomeprint*.  I hope that this might finally
>>> fix some of our printing problems.
>>>
>>> Any of these updates might break GnuCash somewhere else though and I
>>> personally simply do not use GnuCash on Windows a lot.  That is why I
>>> created a new installer for testing, which is not yet to be released.
>>> You can find it here:
>>>
>>> http://andi5.net/gnucash/win32/gnucash-2.2.8-svn-r17815-setup.exe
>>> (md5sum: 5ed6992eb1eb6f98b94cdbd3bd272ca7)
>>>
>>> The version need not be regarded as unstable, but please make sure you
>>> make a backup of your data file before you test it, I hope as usual.  It
>>> also does not contain every fix yet that will be included in GnuCash
>>> 2.2.9, the invoice closing crasher should have gone now though.
>>>
>>> So I invite you to give it a try and use it, both for those use cases
>>> that always failed for you and as in day-to-day business.  If you know a
>>> bug that got fixed, add a comment there, otherwise create a new one or
>>> comment here on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> Thanks to all volunteers!
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>> -- andi5
>>>
>>>
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available