Building gnucash on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha

[Colin Law]

On 22 January 2012 21:32, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Colin Law wrote:
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>>
>> Yes, of course, sorry.  I have never had to look there before.  It contains:
>> * 16:03:44  WARN <Gtk> Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>> * 16:03:44  WARN <Gtk> Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>> * 16:03:44  WARN <Gtk> Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>> * 16:03:44  WARN <Gtk> Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>> * 16:03:45  WARN <libglade> Could not load support for `gnome':
>> libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> * 16:04:43  WARN <libglade> Could not load support for `gnome':
>> libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> * 16:04:43  WARN <libglade> unknown widget class 'GnomeDruid'
>> * 16:04:44  WARN <GLib-GObject>
>> /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.10/./gobject/gsignal.c:2325: signal
>> `cancel' is invalid for instance `0x9e11aa8'
>> * 16:04:44  WARN <gnc.gui> [gnc_glade_lookup_widget()] I know nothing
>> of this 'choose_page' whom you seek.
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>> * 16:04:44  CRIT <Gtk> IA__gtk_widget_modify_base: assertion
>> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>>
>> The file /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so is present.
>>
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> Well, then something is messed up with either ld.conf or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, because the linker isn't finding it. Looks like you have other issues as well. I notice that it's pulling GLib from a self-built location. I suggest that you back out of your experimental environment and build Gnucash against the distro-installed dependencies and make sure you can build it successfully there. Then you can dig into your experimental environment (I sure hope you've kept it isolated from your distro one; otherwise you've a lot of cleanup work ahead of you) to figure out what you've messed up.
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> Incidentally, I don't know how you're handling the experimental environment, but I *very strongly* recommend that you use jhbuild to create it, and that you use it in a jhbuild shell. You can use my gtk-osx gnucash modulesets (at https://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx) as a starting point to create your own; you'll need to modify some of the dependency package names to match the jhbuild modulesets, not all of gtk-osx's do. Be sure to remove the <include> directive, you don't want to build gtk-osx! Also note that if you want an experimental GLib you are committed to building your own version of *every single dependency* that depends on GLib -- which is just about everything except AQBanking and the database backends. That may well be the root of your problem.

I think there may be some confusion, I am running ubuntu 12.04 alpha
in a virtualbox virtual machine and started from a virgin install of
ubuntu with the express purpose of checking the gnucash build.  I have
installed just what should be needed to build gnucash and have not
knowingly built glib.  I see the error I think you are referring to
that mentions /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.31.10/./gobject/gsignal.c but
there is no /build directory so I suspect the path on that message is
to do with how it was built in the first place rather than being a
build on my machine.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not seem to be setup (and is not on my working
ubuntu 11.10 machine where I am able to build ok).
I cannot find an ld.conf on the virtual machine or the working one either.

Does the message
WARN <libglade> Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mean that it cannot find libgnome.so?

Regards
Colin