compile error about ./src/swig-runtime.h...

[Christian]

Am 05.08.2016 um 15:41 schrieb John Ralls:
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Christian <chris at computersalat.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> trying to build (update my gnucash RPM from 2.6.12 to 2.6.13) but
>> running into this problem:
>>
>> [   59s] checking if building from an scm managed directory... no
>> [   59s] checking for ./src/swig-runtime.h... no
>> [   59s] configure: error:
>> [   59s]
>> [   59s] It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion, svk, git or bzr
>> [   59s] but I cannot find swig-runtime.h.  Check your PATH and make sure
>> [   59s] we can find gnc-vcs-info in your PATH!
>> [   59s] Either that or contact gnucash-devel at gnucash.org because
>> [   59s] the tarball you downloaded is broken.
>> [   59s]
>> [   59s]
>> [   59s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.b5xJgU (%build)
>>
>> How can I fix it ?
>> The previous tarball had the missing file ... the current not.
>> Thank you
> 
> I guess that you got the tarball from Github this time and from SourceForge last time. The Github release process creates the tarball from the repository automatically--you can actually get a tarball for any commit from Github--while the SourceForge tarballs are generated from a repository using `make dist`, which runs swig to generate the bindings so that it needs only compilation.
> 
> The easiest solution is to download the tarball from SourcForge.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
Thank you ... will take the tarball from SourceForge and not from github :)

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