Building from git on OS X

[Geert Janssens]

John,

With your guidance on IRC and in PM, I managed to build my gsettings  branch. That's the 
good news.

The bad news is that there's no sign of settings being stored or retrieved. All settings are at 
their defaults and won't change no matter what :(

In addition the build is pretty unstable. I can't open an existing file, the app simply crashes, 
the New File menu item doesn't work...

This is rather frustrating.

I'll talk to you on IRC to see what can be done next.

Geert

On Monday 30 September 2013 09:34:34 John Ralls wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > I am at a point I'd like to test my gsettings work on Windows
> > and OS X.
> > 
> > For Windows I can be short: I can build my private gsettings
> > branch just fine, but no settings are saved or restored :(
> > Investigation is ongoing.
> > 
> > I now want to run the same test on OS X. I have been looking
> > at the instructions again to build on OS X. It allows to build
> > gnucash-stable, gnucash-unstable and gnucash-svn. However,
> > my changes are in a local git repository. How can I use that one
> > to build from ?
> 
> There's a gnucash-git module in the moduleset, so you can just build
> gnucash-git the same way you'd build gnucash-svn. I guess that your
> repo is on your Linux box, not your Mac. There are a couple of
> choices for building from your existing repo:
> 
> * Let it complete, then cd to the new git repo in
> ~/gtk/sources/gnucash-git, add your other repo as a remote, and pull
> in the gsettings branch, then rebuild.
> 
> * Edit gnucash.modules to add your local repo and change the repo in
> the gnucash-git module to point to it. At the top, in the repo block,
> add:
>      <repository type="git" name="my-git"
> 	      href="myLinuxHost:/path/to/directory/containing/gnucash/repo"/>
> 
>   And in the gnucash-git module, make repo="my-git" and
> module="gnucash" (or whatever the dirname of the repo is).
> 
> If I guessed wrong and you're actually set up my way, using a Mac as
> your only machine and Linux and M$Win in VMs, then you can just move
> the repo to ~/gtk/sources/gnucash-git. You'll have to change the URLs
> on the VM's checkouts, of course.
> 
> I used the default checkout root (~/gtk/sources) above, but you can
> change it by adding the line checkoutroot="/path/to/where/you/want"
> to your .jhbuildrc-custom.
> 
> Let me know if you have any issues; I'll be on the IRC channel in an
> hour or so.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls