2.4 and sqlite...

[Gour]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:17:06 -0500
>>>>>> "Derek" == wrote:

Derek> Because it's not *our* bug, it's a bug in libdbi, 

I'm aware it's not Gnucash bug...

Derek> and it's a bug Derek> that only affects certain builds of libdbi, 

but I didn't know about the latter.

Derek> I don't know enough about the bug to tell you whether it's
Derek> something that we can easily detect at runtime.  But it's
Derek> certainly the case that you can build GnuCash against the
Derek> working version and then upgrade the library to the broken
Derek> version and GnuCash will stop working.  Similarly, if you build
Derek> GnuCash against the broken version of libdbi and then replace it
Derek> with a working version then it should start working again.

This is something I do not understand fully...Based on what I see at
libdbi site, it looks that it's not in such a rapid development
producing new releases so often, iow the site says:

libdbi-0.8.4  2010-09-01 
libdbi-0.8.3  2008-02-06 

which means there are two releases in last (almost) three years.

Now, which version of the libdbi is broken?

Derek> Again, this is *not* a bug in GnuCash, but a bug where libdbi
Derek> does not return valid data when compiled with fast math.

That's clear.

otoh, based on the links in this thread, it seems that the bug is
present in 0.8.3 version which is not the newest one.

I'll try to build gnucash on my Archlinux system, but for now I can
only say that libdbi is built with:  ./configure --prefix=/usr
so I do not know what does it mean in regard to '-fast-math' option.

Still (although I very much admire Gnucash and its devs), I believe
that it could be that not-too-many devs were testing with Sqlite
back-end which is important considering that SQL storage is some of
the 'hot stuff' proudly announced as 'major changes' in 2.4.0.

Please, take my post just as constructive criticism meant to help
improve Gnucash. (Finally, I'm the one wanting to use it.)


Sincerely,
Gour

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