Building unstable on Mac

R. Victor Klassen rvklassen at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 18:39:25 EST 2018 


> On Feb 1, 2018, at 6:31 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> Please remember to copy the list on all replies. 

Not intentional.

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

I guess that’s what I’m asking.  
Thoughts on where to look for the answer?

> 
> 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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