[GNC-dev] archive of GnuCash

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 12, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On 11/12/19 1:21 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 12, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> How is the archive generated that is used as the source for distribution?
>>> <<snip>>
>>> 
>> make (or ninja) dist
>> 
>> distcheck will make the tarballs then untar one of them, build, test, and clean. It passes only if all of that works and there isn't anything left over.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> 
> After setting GMOCK_ROOT to /usr/src/googletest/googlemock, and doing
> make dist, I get:
> 
> CMake Error at doc/CMakeLists.txt:50 (file):
>   file failed to open for writing (Permission denied):
> 
>     /home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/gnucash/doc/tip_of_the_day.list
> 
> 
> CMake Error at libgnucash/doc/design/CMakeLists.txt:29 (file):
>   file failed to open for writing (Permission denied):
> 
>     /home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/gnucash/libgnucash/doc/design/version.texi
> 
> 
> CMake Error at libgnucash/doc/design/CMakeLists.txt:30 (file):
>   file failed to open for writing (Permission denied):
> 
>     /home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/gnucash/libgnucash/doc/design/stamp-vti
> 
> 
> Looks like a lot of files have only the read bit set.  Should I reclone
> the repository and checkout 3.7 again?

Please remember to copy the list on all replies.

Since I can't drive your computer I don't know what you've put in /home/steve/Projects/Gnucash/gnucash. Is it a source or a build directory? If it's source, is it from a tarball checkout or a git clone? If it's source and from a git clone, why is make trying to write doc/tip_of_the_day.list into it? Does doc/tip_of_the_day.list already exist? If so, how did it get there, as it's a build product?

On the other hand, if it's a build directory (and it should be) why would you think that recloning the source directory would affect the permissions in the build directory? If make is creating files r-r-r then most likely your umask is messed up. Fix that, delete the directory, and re-run cmake.

If it's both, don't do that.

Suggestion going forward: Name your directories to indicate what's what. For example on Linux where I need build only GnuCash itself I use ~/gnucash-git for the git working directory and ~/gnucash-build for the build directory. If I need to build a bunch of dependencies I'll group them under whatever key parameters define the build and separate the source, build, and install trees, perhaps ~/gnucash-x86_64-maint/src/gnucash-git, ~/gnucash-x86_64-maint/build/gnucash-git, ~/gnucash-x86_64-maint/inst/.

Regards,
John Ralls