[GNC-dev] Windows Build

[Robert Fewell]

Thank you, that makes it clearer now.
Bob

On 17 May 2018 at 18:22, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
>
> > On May 17, 2018, at 9:49 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 18:11:49 CEST schreef Robert Fewell:
> >> Trying to answer my own question...
> >>
> >> I assume the file size difference is because the nightly have debug
> >> information built in.
> >>
> > Indeed.
> >
> >> I know the last bit is the commit it is based on, can not see why they
> >> start with 'g' but can find 5f5ad968f but not d2ef5fd0f
> >>
> > The 'g' comes by default from git's "describe" command and refers to
> (g)it
> > commit.
> >
> > Perhaps d2ef5fd0f is not found because John started the build from a
> commit
> > that never got pushed ? Can't find it either in my git repo.
> >
>
> It exists only in the reflog on the machine that built the tarballs: I
> re-made the tarballs (that's why they're 3.1-1) after making an
> inconsequential change to CMakeLists.txt, to wit:
> --- a/CMakeLists.txt
> +++ b/CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ ENABLE_TESTING()
>  SET (GNUCASH_MAJOR_VERSION 3)
>  SET (GNUCASH_MINOR_VERSION 1)
>  SET (VERSION "${GNUCASH_MAJOR_VERSION}.${GNUCASH_MINOR_VERSION}")
> -SET (GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_SERIES 3.1)
> +SET (GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_SERIES 3.x)
>
>  SET (PACKAGE gnucash)
>  SET (PACKAGE_NAME GnuCash)
> -SET (PACKAGE_VERSION 3.0)
> +SET (PACKAGE_VERSION 3.1)
>  SET (PACKAGE_BUGREPORT gnucash-devel at gnucash.org)
>  SET (PACKAGE_TARNAME ${PACKAGE})
>  SET (PACKAGE_STRING "${PACKAGE_NAME} ${PACKAGE_VERSION}")
>
> Neither variable is actually used for anything, so a better change would
> probably be to simply remove them.
>
> The difference between 3.1-2 and 3.1-3 is that the latter is built with
> the latest release of libofx (0.9.13 instead of 0.9.10) to see if it fixes
> Chris Good's OFX import problem (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
> show_bug.cgi?id=795347). It appears instead to have caused other
> problems. The "official" current release on Windows is 3.1-2.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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