[GNC-dev] Bug # 796687

[Alex Aycinena]

Geert,

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 8:11 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On Sunday, January 6, 2019 4:55:09 AM CET Alex Aycinena wrote:
> > Geert,
> >
> > I have been investigating bug # 796687 (Tax Entity name and type for an
> > account won't work under "Tax Reporting Options" in Gnucash 3.2) and it
> > seems that your commit 4053f2ca5331b345f04f75022658d254c36bdd15 on Mar
> 31,
> > 2018, has caused book string options not to work. I ran gnucash under gdb
> > and got the following:
> >
> > qof_book_set_string_option (book=0xb49af0,
> >     opt_name=0x7fffefcd57e9 "book/tax_US/type", opt_val=0x2600640
> "F1040")
> >     at
> >
> /home/gnucash-dev/gitcheckouts/gnucash-acct-maint-latest/libgnucash/engine/q
> > ofbook.cpp:1163 1163        qof_book_begin_edit(book);
> >
> > going into the function. The book, opt_name and opt_val all seem fine but
> > the KVP is not saved. When I checked-out the commit just prior to yours,
> it
> > seems to work fine: the data is saved and retrieved as expected. After
> your
> > commit, it seems to stop working.
> >
> > I tried to analyze your commit but I'm not sure I understand it. Perhaps
> > you could help me understand it. The funny thing is, the unit test seems
> to
> > pass.
> >
> > Can you help me figure out why it is not working?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
>
> Alex,
>
> I'm not at my development machine until Wednesday. I'll get back to this
> later
> this week.
>
> Geert
>
>
OK. Thanks,

Alex