Building 2.5.0 / Ubuntu raring 13.04

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Thu May 2 12:46:59 EDT 2013


On Friday 19 April 2013 17:09:37 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Friday 19 April 2013 10:49:37 Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Norbert Holze <asterix52 at gmx.de> writes:
> > > Am 17.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > >> Just to be explicit on this point: first swig needs to be patched to
> > >> generate guile 2 compatible code. Then gnucash has to be built using
> > >> this patched swig.
> > > 
> > > So, swig-2.0.8 downloaded, patched, build, installed.
> > > 
> > > Gnucash-2.5.0 rebuild, installed ---> running!
> > > 
> > > Looks good Geert.
> > 
> > Thanks for the feedback.  Hopefully we can get these patches pushed
> > upstream to swig?
> 
> I'm currently working with upstream swig to get guile 2 support included.
> While doing so, I found that my patch is barely sufficient to support
> GnuCash, but most of the swig tests failed.
> 
> So I have been working on improving my patch in the last few weeks and am
> about to submit it upstream for inclusion. If it's not rejected, we should
> have guile 2 support in the next version of swig.
> 
> Geert
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An update on swig - my patches have been merged upstream. The next swig release will be 2.0.10 and will 
have full guile 2 support. Guile 1.6 support has been dropped at the same time. Not a problem for us. 
GnuCash 2.5 requires guile 1.8 or up anyway.

Geert


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