Gnucash Segfaults

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 28 February 2014 02:12:23 Ted Creedon wrote:
> It might be best to work on 2.6..1.
> 
> Here'e the 2.6.1 compile error - which involves libgnc:
> 
> libtool: link: gcc -Wdeclaration-after-statement -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-unused -o
> .libs/gnucash gnucash-bin.o -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread
> ../../src/register/ledger-core/.libs/libgncmod-ledger-core.so
> ../../src/report/report-gnome/.libs/libgncmod-report-gnome.so
> ../../src/gnome/.libs/libgnc-gnome.so
> ../../src/gnome-utils/.libs/libgncmod-gnome-utils.so
> ../../src/app-utils/.libs/libgncmod-app-utils.so
> ../../src/engine/.libs/libgncmod-engine.so
> ../../src/gnc-module/.libs/libgnc-module.so
> ../../src/core-utils/.libs/libgnc-core-utils.so
> ../../src/libqof/qof/.libs/libgnc-qof.so /usr/lib64/libguile.so -lgmp
> -lcrypt /usr/lib64/libltdl.so -lgthread-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0
> -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo
> -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0
> -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lm -pthread -Wl,-rpath
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib64/gnucash -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64
> /usr/lib64/libgnc-backend-xml-utils.so.0: undefined reference to
> `safe_strcmp'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [gnucash] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
That looks like your linker is trying to link against libraries from an older gnucash version 
installed on the system. safe_strcmp is not used in gnucash 2.6.1 anymore.

There is a bug report for this [1]. The workaround is to remove gnucash from your system 
before compiling.

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644897