Broken compile on Fedora 15?

[Mike Evans]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:25:07 +0100
Christian Stimming <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 24. November 2011, 10:06:33 schrieb Mike Evans:
> > Make on SVN trunk fails with:
> > 
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/intl-scm'
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> > `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/src/business/business-core/gnucash/business-co
> > re.scm', needed by `guile-strings.c'.  Stop. make[2]: Leaving
> > directory `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash/intl-scm' make[1]: ***
> > [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/mikee/Projects/gnucash' make: *** [all] Error 2
> > 
> > Using git bisect the faulty commit appears to be r21605
> >  Output from git bisect below.
> > 
> > $ git bisect good adea4467280732dec525697eba97694c05f52874 is
> > the first bad commit commit adea4467280732dec525697eba97694c05f52874
> > Author: gjanssens <gjanssens at 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd>
> > Date:   Mon Nov 21 10:40:17 2011 +0000
> > 
> >     Dissolve the business-core module, by integrating its remaining
> >     bits in the engine, where the rest already was moved before.
> > 
> >     git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@21605
> >     57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Not sure it this peculiar to my machine.  I've just upgraded from
> > FC14 to FC15, which was less than trouble free, so that may be an
> > issue, although unlikely.
> 
> I had the same error, but: It's a leftover from the removal of
> directories from the source code. It would not disappear with a clean
> source directory. But, as this is an existing source directory, it
> still has this obnoxious generated extra "gnucash" directory in many
> of the source directories. Those have been generated, so they don't
> disappear through "svn update" (git pull) alone. Instead, you have to
> manually remove those:
> 
>   rm -rf src/business/business-core/gnucash
> 
> and the same in business-utils and I think two more, four altogether.
> 
> I don't know how to fix this automatically, though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian

Thanks Christian/Geert.  

I had assumed that a Make clean would, um, clean all the
generated files, obviously not.

Using;
find . -type l | grep gnucash
narrowed down the search space a little.

Just compiled successfully after removing problem dirs.

Thanks and regards
Mike E