OS X build fails on missing gconf

[John Ralls]

On Apr 25, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On Sunday 25 April 2010, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> On Sunday 25 April 2010, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> A couple of days ago, I tried to build gnucash-svn from scratch on my
>>> Snow Leopard system.
>>> 
>>> The build failed in step "configure goffice" due to a missing gconf-2.0
>>> dependency.
>>> 
>>> I only got it to build by adding "dep package=gconf" in the goffice
>>> module description.
>>> 
>>> Adding that, a number of additional dependencies were pulled in (like
>>> dbus) and goffice builds fine.
>>> 
>>> Did I stumble upon a bug or is the dep omitted on purpose and am I just
>>> doing something wrong ?
>>> 
>>> Geert
>> 
>> I forgot to mention this is the OSX/Quartz port.
>> 
>> But just ignore this post for now. I'm getting more errors, so I suspect
>> something else is wrong. I'll completely remove the gtk directory first and
>> see how it goes then.
>> 
>> Geert
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> The other build issues seem to be fixed by removing my gtk directory, but the 
> missing gconf-2.0 error remains and is fixed by adding gconf as dependency in 
> goffice.
> 
> So it seems the dependency is missing in gconf.
> 
> Any thoughts ?

It's jhbuild randomness (by which I mean "some behavior I don't understand"). Goffice used to build later in the list, so gconf had already been pulled in by something else. I'll add the gconf dependency to goffice.modules and push the change shortly.

Thanks.

Regards,
John Ralls