build gnucash-git woes with Mac OS, Xcode 5.1

[Jeff Earickson]

John,

Can you tell me what version of XCode you have installed?  5.0.2?  version
of gcc? (Xcode 5.1 gives you 4.2.1 with clang = clang-503.0.38).  If you
have not upgraded to XCode 5.1 (5B130a), then I suggest avoiding it.
Aarrgh.... I just discovered that gdb is not available in Xcode with
Mavericks.

This issue of hanging at guile-procedures.texi seems to be known, see:
http://gnu-guile.7481.n7.nabble.com/guile-2-0-9-build-on-mingw-td16967.html

This URL didn't give me any real insight, except that others have seen it
even with 2.x of guile.

I tried various permutations of dropping into the jhbuild shell at failure,
rerunning .configure with "--enable-guile-debug" (that gave other compiler
errors), configure with "--without-threads" (suggested by the URL above, no
help); trying to fiddle with CFLAGS in the Makefile to change compiler
options, even in the libguile subdir where guile is built -- no love.  The
compiler flags "-g -O' did not change its behavior.

I also downloaded guile-2.0.9, and wedged it into gtk/source like so:

bash-3.2$ ls -ld guile*
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jaearick  staff    11 Mar 16 19:27 guile-1.8.8 -> guile-2.0.9
drwxr-xr-x  45 jaearick  staff  1530 Mar 16 19:40 guile-1.8.8.last
drwxr-xr-x@ 49 jaearick  staff  1666 Mar 16 19:41 guile-2.0.9

then "jhbuild build".  It says "configure: error: GNU libunistring is
required, please install it."  So, I'm stuck for he moment.


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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
>
>
>
>