build gnucash-git woes with Mac OS, Xcode 5.1

[Jeff Earickson]

John,

I took things down to the bare walls.  I rm'ed .git, gtk, gnucash*
everything.  I did not re-download .jhbuildrc-custom (because I had modifed
it), or gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, but everything else got nuked.  I was
trying to get everything herded into one subdirectory of my homedir, so I
didn't have .git, gnucash-git, and gtk scattered there (that didn't work).
  So I started by running gtk-osx-build-setup.sh, then the python build,
then bootstrap, then "jhbuild build".  I was wondering if the XCode upgrade
would perturb life.

I will continue poking at guile and report back if I get anywhere.

BTW, I bought the O'Reilly book on Git and have been studying it, so I will
(hopefully) quit asking stupid questions there.  Git verges on magical in
terms of what it does.

Jeff

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 1:58 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
>
> > John et al,
> >
> > I upgraded Xcode on my Mac (10.9.2) to Xcode 5.1 this week (gcc 4.2.1),
> and
> > I have tried a total-start-from-scratch build of gnucash-git.  My woes
> with
> > this:
> >
> > * ~/gtk/source/webkit-1.6.1/GNUmakefile.am is missing
> "-stdlibc=libstdc++"
> > on line 120. (previously reported, and I know how to work around this).
>
> Have you run gtk-osx-build-setup.sh since the last time? I fixed this in
> .jhbuildrc instead of the moduleset.
>
> >
> > * guile 1.8.8 hangs forever trying to create a texi file in libguile.  To
> > reproduce, I can do by hand:
> >
> > $ pwd
> > /Users/jaearick/gtk/source/guile-1.8.8/libguile
> >
> > $ cat *.doc |
> GUILE="/Users/jaearick/gtk/source/guile-1.8.8/pre-inst-guile"
> > ../scripts/snarf-check-and-output-texi
> > ERROR: Unbound variable: define  (hangs forever)
> > ^C
> >
> > The problem lies in the snarf-check-and-output-texi script, but I have no
> > idea what this does.  I tried to fake out this portion of the build by
> > simply doing "cat *.doc > guile-procedures.texi", which will get the rest
> > of guile to build, with a bogus texi file.
>
> I've never seen this problem before, but I haven't done any builds since
> the Xcode upgrade. That could be a serious problem.
>
> >
> > * The build of gnucash-git did not like my fakery with guile, because it
> > will then hang during the configure for gnucash:
> >
> > checking for GUILE... yes
> > checking for guile... /Users/jaearick/gnucash-git/bin/guile
> > checking for guile-config... /Users/jaearick/gnucash-git/bin/guile-config
> > checking for guile-tools... /Users/jaearick/gnucash-git/bin/guile-tools
> > checking if (www main) is available... (hangs forever)
> >
> > ^C*** Error during phase configure of gnucash-git: ########## Error
> running
> > ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix /Users/jaearick/gnucash-git --libdir
> > '/Users/jaearick/gnucash-git/lib' --enable-ofx --enable-aqbanking
> > --enable-binreloc --enable-dbi --with-html-engine="webkit"  *** [62/62]
> >
> > Any ideas please?
>
> Without a clean Guile, Gnucash is hopeless, so you've got to get Guile to
> work without "fakery". Unfortunately Guile2 doesn't build clean either and
> I haven't taken time to work on that; filing a bug against Guile 1.8 isn't
> going to get us anywhere.
>
> I've no doubt that the snarf-check... scheme program was revealing a
> problem in C; upgrading clang wouldn't have any effect on the scheme, it's
> going to affect the interpreter.
>
> Try turning off optimization when building Guile, that's often the source
> of weird results. If it still hangs, add a debugging flag and run
> snarf-check... in the debugger and see why it's hanging.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
>