[GNC-dev] Dependencies on Launchpad

[John Ralls]

You don't need libgwen-gtk3, GnuCash's CMakeLists will figure out if it's not present and build the sources included in borrowed/libgwen-gtk3.

Ubuntu 14.04 includes libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev and that's sufficient for GnuCash.

GnuCash just needs the googletest sources, so util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-docker clones https://github.com/google/googletest. You don't need to build anything, 

Regards,
John Ralls


> On May 26, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On 5/26/19 3:24 PM, Dale Phurrough wrote:
>> 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
>> 
> 
> My problem is figuring out what to tell Launchpad so it will build from
> source for Trusty.
> 
> The debian/control file wants debhelper >= 11.  It looks like 9.2 is
> available for Trusty do I'll try to downgrade that to >= 9.
> 
> googletest isn't available for Trusty.  Somehow I'll need to get that
> into my PPA first and have it built for Trusty there.
> 
> Ditto for locales-all.  Haven't found that one yet.
> 
> Also need ibgwengui-gtk3-dev and libwebkit2tk-4.0-dev
> 
> So, if I can figure out those five packages for Trusty, then we'll take
> another crack at building for the PPA.
> 
> I can build on my own box just fine.  Teaching the PPA up on Launchpad
> is another story!
> 
> 
> --Steve
> 
>> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:51 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
>> <mailto: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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