Problem with GC2.4.4 freezing

[David G. Hamblen]

On 04/03/2011 03:16 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On zondag 3 april 2011, David G. Hamblen wrote:
>> On 04/03/2011 02:21 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>> Am Sonntag, 3. April 2011 schrieb Dave:
>>>> With 2.4.4 (but not 2.4.3), Gnucash freezes when I attempt to expand the
>>>> Income account (i.e., when I click on the little symbol in front of the
>>>> top level Income account
>>> I believe this is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645518 which
>>> is already fixed in SVN trunk and 2.4-stable branch. Your backtrace
>>> mentions gnc_ui_account_get_tax_info_string which is exactly that bug.
>>> It will be fixed in upcoming version 2.4.5 and any other upcoming
>>> version.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Christian
>> Thanks, trunk from svn works properly.
> Good.
>
> Just note that you could also have checked out the 2.4 branch to get the fix.
> This is what will be used to create the upcoming 2.4.5 release and generally
> should be more stable since trunk has been reopened for unstable development
> again. For production the 2.4 branch is clearly recommended over trunk.
>

Just checked out the 2.4.4 svn r20530. It also runs properly, but I had 
to downgrade back to guile-1.6-dev.

Thanks for the tips.

>> I did have to update guile-dev
>> from guile-1.6-dev to guile-1.8-dev in order for configure to suceed.
>>
> Indeed. Trunk has moved to guile 1.8 recently and no longer supports guile
> 1.6.
>
> Geert