GLib-WARNING from fresh build

[John Ralls]

On Jan 26, 2014, at 4:10 AM, alessandro basili <alessandro.basili at cern.ch> wrote:

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> Hi John,
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> On 1/26/2014 2:25 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>>> alb at wheezy:~/Repositories/gnucash/src/bin/test$ ./test-version
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>>>> (process:28304): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a 
>>>> previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug
>>>> in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's
>>>> set. The overwriting error message was: No such file or
>>>> directory GnuCash 2.6.0 development version This copy was built
>>>> from git rev 53e1954+ on 2014-01-26.
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> 
>> 
>> Probably nothing. That’s what I get when I do the same thing, so
>> that script has apparently succumbed to bit-rot.
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> Same thing happened if launched from gnucash/src/bin/
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>> Go back to Repositories/gnucash and run make check. If everything
>> passes, your build is OK.
> 
> Uhm, I found my locale was not good enough for gnucash, added en_US,
> en_GB and fr_FR, but I still got 1 test failed:
> 
> [...]
>> * 12:53:38  CRIT <gnc.engine> [xaccSplitSetValue()] numeric error
>> in converting the split value's denominator * 12:53:38  CRIT
>> <gnc.engine> [xaccSplitSetValue()] numeric error in converting the
>> split value's denominator FAILURE
>> gnc_transaction_sixtp_parser_create test-xml-transaction.c:361 40 
>> Executed 100 tests. There was 1 failure. FAIL:
>> test-xml-transaction Executed 1 test. All tests passed. PASS:
>> test-xml2-is-file ========================================== 1 of
>> 13 tests failed Please report to gnucash-devel at gnucash.org 
>> ========================================== make[6]: ***
>> [check-TESTS] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src/backend/xml/test' make[5]: ***
>> [check-am] Error 2 make[5]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src/backend/xml/test' make[4]: ***
>> [check-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src/backend/xml/test' make[3]: ***
>> [check-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src/backend/xml' make[2]: ***
>> [check-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src/backend' make[1]: ***
>> [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/alb/Repositories/gnucash/src' make: *** [check-recursive]
>> Error 1
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Look at src/backend/xml/test/test-xml-transaction.log for details of which test failed.

> BTW, 'apt-get build-dev gnucash' was not sufficient on wheezy. I still
> needed to install manually the following:
> 
>> sudo apt-get install xsltproc sudo apt-get install swig sudo
>> apt-get install libxslt sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev sudo
>> apt-get install libxslt1.1 sudo apt-get install xsltproc
> 

That’s not surprising, since the dependencies for GC2.6 are different from those for GC2.4. Only Sid might have the right dependencies at this point.

> and I also had to set 'disable-dbi' since I do not have any db and I
> don't bother for now.

If you’re going to develop you need to install libdbi, libdbd-sqlite3, and sqlite3 along with their dev packages so that you’re running the full test suite. 

Regards,
John Ralls