[GNC-dev] Dependencies on Launchpad
Stephen M. Butler
kg7je at arrl.net
Mon May 27 13:40:45 EDT 2019
On 5/26/19 6:10 PM, John Ralls 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,
I need to figure out how to get that up on Launchpad.com
> 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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