Building gnucash on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 27 januari 2012 11:05:38 schreef Colin Law:
> On 27 January 2012 08:33, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On 27 January 2012 06:07, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >> On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> Unless anyone has any good ideas I am going to leave it at that for
> >>> the moment, I will add the notes for building on 12.04 to
> >>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building including the requirement to
> >>> setup LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the 2.4 branch.  Then I will keep an eye
> >>> on
> >>> the situation and see if the issues disappears with an upgrade to
> >>> something else.
> >> 
> >> There are two libgnome.so in play here. It's a bit clearer in OSX,
> >> where loadable modules are called foo.so and shared libraries are
> >> called foo.dylib. It turns out that there's lib/libgnome.dylib and
> >> lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so. *The latter depends on the former.*
> >> 
> >> It's likely that it's lib/libgnome.so (which would be libgnome.dylib
> >> in OSX) which is installed by libgnomeui.
> >> lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so is obviously installed by libglade, but
> >> the libglade package maintainer might have messed up the second-order
> >> dependencies for *that* libgnome.so. It's his job to make it work, so
> >> you should be talking to him about the problem. He's certain to know
> >> more about the subtleties of it than is anyone here.> 
> > Strangely /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so *is* installled by
> > libgnomeui-0 $ dpkg -L libgnomeui-0
> > /.
> > /usr
> > /usr/share
> > /usr/share/doc
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0/README
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0/AUTHORS
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0/copyright
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0/NEWS.gz
> > /usr/share/doc/libgnomeui-0/changelog.Debian.gz
> > /usr/lib
> > /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0.2400.5
> > /usr/lib/libglade
> > /usr/lib/libglade/2.0
> > /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so
> > /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
> > 
> > but I am sure you are correct in that it is something here or in a
> > related package that is wrong.  Given that the whole area is now
> > deprecated and gnucash has moved on (on trunk) I think we have all
> > wasted enough time on this so I will just note the issue in the build
> > instructions as I suggested above.
> 
> I have added build instructions to the wiki [1].
> 
> I had a look at the packaged version of gnucash in the Ubuntu 12.04
> repository and realised that this suffers from the same problem
> (though the symptom is not exactly the same hence I did not realise
> this previously) so I have submitted a bug to launchpad [2] in the
> hope that the package manager there will be able to redirect the bug
> to the appropriate package.  I presume that the package manager is not
> here?
> 
> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/922514
> 
> Colin
Note that your distribution could work around this by patching the environment 
file that is generated during build. This file ends up in 
/etc/gnucash/environment and contains a set of parameters that will be added 
to the environment when GnuCash is running. By adding an entry for 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH in there, GnuCash should pick it up before any druid is 
started.
This is obviously only one way to make sure GnuCash gets the proper 
environment variable set. You may want to use another mechanism if that suits 
Ubuntu better.

Regards,

Geert