Building unstable on Mac

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Thu Feb 1 18:31:33 EST 2018 

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Well, if it was installed then why isn't libsoup finding it?

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Feb 1, 2018, at 2:50 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> … or what happened that it wasn’t found?
> 
> I scrolled back (actually used find) and it was checked out, configured, built and installed.  These appeared successful.
> 
> That was two packages before libsoup.
> 
>> 
>> glib-networking is in the list of modules that should be built. What happened that it wasn't?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 2:02 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> At some point I got the “refusing to switch to a dirty tree” error.  I followed the instructions at 
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2015-March/038616.html
>>> 
>>> [git reset --hard HEAD]
>>> 
>>> Hope that’s OK.
>>> 
>>> Next thing I remember is Boost.   That was almost impossible to check out.  For whatever reason, it would abort somewhere between 2% and 92% of the way through the download.   Then finally it worked.
>>> 
>>> I followed the instructions on getting Boost to compile; at the instruction:
>>> 
>>> for i in `ls $PREFIX/lib/libboost*`; do install_name_tool -id $i $i; done 
>>> 
>>> I encountered a long series of errors of the form:
>>> 
>>> error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: input file: /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable/lib/libboost_atomic.a is not a Mach-O file
>>> error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: input file: /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable/lib/libboost_chrono.a is not a Mach-O file
>>> error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: input file: /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable/lib/libboost_container.a is not a Mach-O file
>>> error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: input file: /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable/lib/libboost_coroutine.a is not a Mach-O file
>>> 
>>> I continued, but I do wonder whether that was OK.
>>> 
>>> It did crash on the second ‘2’, as predicted, so I ran 
>>> 
>>> jhbuild build --start-at=googletest
>>> 
>>> Which picked up from there.  This failed in configure:
>>> 
>>> checking for glib-networking (glib TLS implementation)... no
>>> configure: error: libsoup requires glib-networking for TLS support.
>>> 
>>> If you are building a package, you can pass --disable-tls-check to
>>> allow building libsoup anyway (since glib-networking is not actually
>>> required at compile time), but you should be sure to add a runtime
>>> dependency on it.
>>> *** Error during phase configure of libsoup: ########## Error running ./configure --prefix /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable set_more_warnings=no   *** [6/8]
>>> 
>>> I think it’s getting close...
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 10:12 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> You didn’t build gtk-doc and Pango requires at least the macros for it.
>>>> 
>>>> As to your question, it depends. It’s telling you on the line just below your question that pango is the seventeenth out of sixty-five packages, but it doesn’t know that some of them build in a couple of seconds and others (webkit and guile in particular) take hours.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> John Ralls
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 5:55 AM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Broke in pango - errors below:
>>>>> 
>>>>> [Is there a file or other accessible reference that I can look into to get some idea of what fraction of the way through I am?]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *** Configuring pango *** [17/65]
>>>>> autoreconf -fi
>>>>> acinclude.m4:68: warning: the serial number must appear before any macro definition
>>>>> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
>>>>> libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
>>>>> libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
>>>>> libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
>>>>> libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
>>>>> acinclude.m4:68: warning: the serial number must appear before any macro definition
>>>>> configure.ac:115: installing './compile'
>>>>> configure.ac:52: installing './missing'
>>>>> gtk-doc.make:7: error: GTK_DOC_USE_LIBTOOL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:101:   'gtk-doc.make' included from here
>>>>> gtk-doc.make:60: error: GTK_DOC_BUILD_HTML does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:101:   'gtk-doc.make' included from here
>>>>> gtk-doc.make:65: error: GTK_DOC_BUILD_PDF does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:101:   'gtk-doc.make' included from here
>>>>> gtk-doc.make:74: error: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:101:   'gtk-doc.make' included from here
>>>>> gtk-doc.make:280: error: HAVE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:101:   'gtk-doc.make' included from here
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:142: error: ENABLE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
>>>>> docs/Makefile.am:54: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> examples/Makefile.am:6: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> examples/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
>>>>> pango-view/Makefile.am:30: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> pango/Makefile.am:16: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> pango/mini-fribidi/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> tools/Makefile.am:3: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
>>>>> win32/Makefile-newvs.am:23: warning: MSVC_TOOLSET was already defined in condition TRUE, which includes condition MSVC_NO_TOOLSET_SET ...
>>>>> win32/vs15/Makefile.am:30:   'win32/Makefile-newvs.am' included from here
>>>>> win32/vs15/Makefile.am:28: ... 'MSVC_TOOLSET' previously defined here
>>>>> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>>>>> *** Error during phase configure of pango: ########## Error running autoreconf -fi *** [17/65]
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] Rerun phase configure
>>>>> [2] Ignore error and continue to build
>>>>> [3] Give up on module
>>>>> [4] Start shell
>>>>> [5] Reload configuration
>>>>> [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
>>>>> [7] Go to phase "clean"
>>>>> [8] Go to phase "distclean"
>>>>> choice: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2018, at 11:02 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To build unstable:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. Retrieve the latest .jhbuildrc-custom from the gnucash-on-osx repository.
>>>>>> 2. Edit ~/.jhbuildrc-custom to comment out the gnucash-stable prefix and modules and to uncomment the gnucash-unstable ones.
>>>>>> 3. Run jhbuild bootstrap
>>>>>> 4. Run jhbuild build
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you want a git checkout, uncomment the gnucash-git module instead of the gnucash-unstable module. That will build ‘master’, though be sure to look at https://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx/blob/master/modulesets/gnucash.modules and note the instructions for boost; jhbuild doesn’t know how to build that. After running `jhbuild build` you can
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. cd ~/gtk/source/gnucash-git
>>>>>> 2. git clean -fdx
>>>>>> 2. git checkout -b unstable -t origin/unstable
>>>>>> 3. jhbuild shell
>>>>>> 4. cd $PREFIX/..
>>>>>> 5. mkdir build/gnucash-git && cd build/gnucash-git
>>>>>> 6. cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX -DGTEST_ROOT=$JHBUILD_SOURCE/googletest/googletest -DGMOCK_ROOT=$JHBUILD_SOURCE/googletest/googlemock $JHBUILD_SOURCE/gnucash-git
>>>>>> 7. make && make install
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To run tests, run 
>>>>>> make check
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2018, at 3:33 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So, the wiki is less than clear on how to do this.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> First I tried going through the instructions under Building for Development beginning with
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> jhbuild shell
>>>>>>> cd $PREFIX/../src/gnucash-2.6.17
>>>>>>> But it turned out that there was no path with the prefix $PREFIX/../src
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> No src directory had yet been created under $PREFIX - this is a clean user account, with most of an attempt at building stable as the only thing in it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So I skipped the uninstall, and made a guess as to where I was supposed to go with the cd ..
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Then I ran
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> git clone -b maint https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git
>>>>>>> Nearly giving up after a dozen or so failures to get the whole thing in one gulp.  Early morning seems best.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When I tried the autopen.sh && configure, it became clear that many dependencies weren’t in place.
>>>>>>> Many of the early dependencies complained about were to be found in my gnucash-stable tree, and as they were external tools I just linked them to the corresponding location, which got me somewhat further, but not everything was found still.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So I skipped to “Building Unstable Versions” and did the commenting and uncommenting recommended. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I did a 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jhbuild bootstrap
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And then jhbuild build.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Which complained:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> jhbuild build: A module called ''meta-gnucash-unstable'' could not be found.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> At this point I tried 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> $ jhbuild shell
>>>>>>> $ echo $PREFIX
>>>>>>> /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable
>>>>>>> $ cd $PREFIX/gnucash
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> $ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-ofx --enable-aqbanking --enable-binreloc --enable-dbi --with-dbi-dbd-dir=$PREFIX/lib/dbd
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This worked for awhile, but then I got a configure error:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> configure: error: 
>>>>>>>  You are building from git but swig was not found or too old.
>>>>>>>  To build gnucash you need at least swig version 2.0.10.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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