[GNC-dev] Dependencies on Launchpad
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Mon May 27 03:22:42 EDT 2019
I would not bother trying to build for Trusty. It went out of support
in April, nobody should be using it now.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
Colin
On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 02:11, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
> >> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com <mailto:Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com>
> >> kg7je at arrl.net <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>
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> > --
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