Bug 611936 and the 2.4.0 release

[John Ralls]

On Aug 9, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Mike and John,
> 
> Thank you both for your feedback (here and on the bug report).
> 
> I think it's safe to conclude that sqlite3 doesn't fly on Fedora 12 (3 
> independent reports so far), it doesn't work on Mandriva 2010.0 either.
> 
> It does work on OS X though, which also uses libdbi-0.8.3.
> Debian is still using 0.8.2 currently.
> It'd be useful to hear from other platforms as well, like openSuSE (at least 
> 10.2 ships libdbi 0.8.3).
> 
> Is sqlite3 support on Fedora imporant enough to consider this bug blocking for 
> 2.4 ? I would think so as the db support is a major feature for 2.4 and 
> sqlite3 is the candidate to become the future default backend.
> 
> Do you agree on this ?
> 

Depends. If there's really something that we did wrong in Gnucash, then yes, we need to fix that. But it sure smells like it's a problem in Fedora's build of libdbi. That's why I suggested that you build all three (libdbi, libdbi-drivers, and sqlite3) from source (they're quite small, it won't take long). If it still reproduces, then you've got sources and can do a debug build of those three libraries and find the problem. If it doesn't reproduce, then it's not our problem and there's no reason to hold up the release.

Regards,
John Ralls