[GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.3 builds on CentOS 7

[Eric Wheeler]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Eric Wheeler (gnucash-devel at lists.ewheeler.net) said: 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > For those interested, we have successfully built GnuCash on CentOS 7.
> > 
> > 1. download gnucash 3.3:
> >   https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/source/tree/Packages/g/gnucash-3.3-1.fc30.src.rpm
> > 2. yum install yum-utils epel-release 
> > 3. yum-builddep gnucash-3.3-1.fc30.src.rpm
> > 4. yum install boost-devel libsoup-devel gsettings-desktop-schemas
> > 5. rpm -ivh gnucash-3.3-1.fc30.src.rpm
> > 6. Patch have_dst() in your local OS boost install:
> >   /usr/include/boost/date_time/local_time/custom_time_zone.hpp
> >   See this patch: https://www.boost.org/patches/1_54_0/002-date-time.patch
> > 
> > 6. Add this just above '%cmake .' in the gnucash.spec. Note that -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS=1 is important:
> > 
> > %global optflags %{optflags} -Wno-parentheses -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS=1
> > %define __cmake cmake3
> > sed -i 's/1\.54\.0/1.53.0/g' CMakeLists.txt
> > %cmake .
> > 
> > 7. rpmbuild -bb <modified gnucash.spec>
> > 
> > There might be other deps, perhaps I had them installed already.  But it works for me!
> > 
> > (ps, This redhat bugzilla reports the boost bugfix request in case that is 
> > useful: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1636817 )
> 
> Thanks for looking at this. I'd be nervous about changing the boost
> requirements and would prefer that it be fixed before building this for
> EPEL. But that's just me.

Agreed, I hope this doesn't hit EPEL before 787018 is fixed!  We /need/ 
PDF support to run the business.

I suspect that the 1.54 boost requirement is the same bug that the 
referenced Boost patch fixes since it blocks compilation of Gnucash.  It 
would be intersting to know if there are any other reasons that 1.54 is 
necessary.


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Eric Wheeler


> 
> Bill
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