[GNC-dev] Dependencies on Launchpad

[Dale Phurrough]

Gnucash 3.5 builds clean on Ubuntu 14.04 aka Trusty with the list of
packages in the Dockerfile at
https://github.com/diablodale/gnucash-dev-docker/blob/master/debian.dockerfile
You can see in it there are some logic tests to see what platform/packages
are available in the repos.
Currently I use the suggestion from the core devs to pull all the build
dependencies for gnucash 2.x (build-dep -qq gnucash). I'll change that
later to be more specific as I have done already with the CentOS and
upcoming openSUSE Dockerfile.
You can use the Dockerfile along with your own research to get the needed
packages.
Gtest and gmock are not available for Trusty. You will need to build that
yourself. The core devs write about this and you can see in the Dockerfile
that 1.8.0 is downloaded and later compiled by c/make.

If you have a specific list of packages, I would be interested to help
resolve them because I'll need to do that myself when I replace the
build-dep approach.

--Dale

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:51 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> I received this response from the folks on Launchpad:
>
> You tried building the packages for Ubuntu trusty, but several
> dependencies (at least debhelper (>= 11~), googletest, locales-all) do
> not exist in the standard repositories or trusty.
>
> If you really want to build these packages for trusty, then you first
> have to find a solution for these dependent packages in trusty (either
> in an existing PPA, or by backporting theses packages to trusty in your
> own PPA). Otherwise it is not possible to build that gnucash package for
> trusty.
>
> ---------------------
>
> What suggestions do the devs have?  What is the earliest Ubuntu that has
> these in the standard repository or should I investigate adding them to my
> PPA (and then I'll have to figure out how to do that)?
>
> --Steve
>
>
> On 5/23/19 2:41 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
> > I've made it to the point of uploading source to Launchpad to build a
> > ppa.  However, Launchpad reported these dependency issues:
> >
> >
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > | Install gnucash build dependencies (apt-based resolver)
>       |
> >
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > Installing build dependencies
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  sbuild-build-depends-gnucash-dummy : Depends: debhelper (>= 11~) but
> 9.20131227ubuntu1 is to be installed
> >                                       Depends: googletest but it is not
> installable
> >                                       Depends: libgwengui-gtk3-dev but
> it is not installable
> >                                       Depends: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev but
> it is not installable
> >                                       Depends: locales-all but it is not
> installable
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > Builds fine on my local box.
> > --Steve
> >
>
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