Trying to build gnucash on Mac 2.9.2 using jhbuild: help?

[John Ralls]

On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:

> John,
> 
> I gave it major effort tonight.  In the first round, I reran gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, reran jhbuild (failed), selected "wipe directory and clean", retried (failed again).
> 
> In round 2, I removed everything related to gnucash/jhbuild from my home directory (.jhbuild* files, gtk*, Source, .local, gnucash-stable, .subversion) and started from scratch: download gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, download new .jhbuildrc-custom, follow the instructions on the wiki from the beginning.  Same error in Webkit, see attached.  I wondered what "pull the latest gnucash-on-mac" meant; I thought starting from scratch would do that anyway.
> 
> While waiting for stuff to compile, I spent time reading thru the developer wiki pages.  I groaned when I saw the blurb at the bottom of the page "Gtk-OSX does not yet support Universal Access."  That is the one thing I was hoping (someday) to accomplish, so my visually impaired wife could use gnucash.  At least I can export accounts to csv, pull them into Excel and have that read text to her -- something Quicken can't do.

In that case I recommend setting up a Linux box or a Linux VM for her so that she can use the native Gtk/Atk screen reader Orca — though GnuCash doesn’t directly implement any atk functions, it might still work well enough for her to use.

Regards,
John Ralls