Your build system is broken

[Stephen Brown]

Hi John
I have downloaded and installed the oracle virtual machine software.
I have installed debian as a virtual machine.
I have installed yum.
I have been unable to set up the yum software repository.
Can you tell me how to set it up please.
Yours Sincerely
Stephen Grant Brown

From: John Ralls
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 2:08 PM
To: Stephen Brown
Cc: GNUCash Developement
Subject: Re: Your build system is broken


> On Mar 21, 2017, at 7:47 PM, Stephen Brown <StephenBrown165 at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> In a git shell I see
> -------------------------------------------------------
> GNUCashNew at ACE /c/gcdev/gnucash.git (master)
> $ git branch --list
>  AQBanking
> * master
>
> GNUCashNew at ACE /c/gcdev/gnucash.git (master)
> $
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In a gcdev msys shell I do
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ./install.sh
> ...
> ############################################################
> ###  Finish...
> ############################################################
>
> ############################################################
> ###  Restore MSYS
> ############################################################
> Build Finished at Wed Mar 22 06:48:34 AUSEDT 2017
>
> GNUCashNew at Ace /c/gcdev/gnucash-on-windows.git
> $ cd c:/gcdev/gnucash/build
> $ make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build'
> Making all in .
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build'
> Making all in doc
> ...
> Making all in core-utils
> make[3]: Entering directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build/src/core-utils'
> You're building from svn/svk/git/bzr...  But your build system is broken
> Don't do that.   Complain to your build-system creator.
> make[3]: *** [_gnc-vcs-info.h] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build/src/core-utils'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/gcdev/gnucash/build'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> GNUCashNew at Ace /c/gcdev/gnucash/build
> $
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What am I doing wrong?


Besides not taking my advice to set up a Linux VM?
Probably you haven't set up your build environment correctly. Have a look at gnucash-on-windows.git/dev.rc.

Regards,
John Ralls