[GNC-dev] 'make' before 'make dist'?

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 13, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Decided to reorg within the GnuCash directory.  Created Source and Build
> sub-directories and redid the clone with a v3.7 workfile for git tag of
> 3.7 under Source.
> 
> Went to Build and created gnucash-3.7 directory and cd'd into it. 
> Attempted the cmake (worked fine) and make dist (failed).  I then
> cleaned the folder and did the cmake again followed by a make (which
> failed with the below list).  But that then allowed the make dist to work.
> 
> Try #1
> 
> cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7
> 
> make dist
> 
> Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c
> [  0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py
> [  0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c
> Scanning dependencies of target dist-ChangeLog
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'ChangeLog', needed by
> 'CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog'.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:132:
> CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog.dir/all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:107: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:197: dist] Error 2
> 
> 
> Try #2
> 
> rm -rf *
> 
> cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7
> 
> make   #which failed with the below listing
> 
> make dist #which now worked
> 
> Is this normal having to do a 'make' before doing 'make dist'?  Is there
> something that 'make' is doing that is needed by 'make dist'?
> 
> 
> I presume the below is due to my version of swig.  <<Ubuntu 19.10>>  
> <<Learning mode=ON>>
> 
> =====================
> 
> [ 18%] Generating swig-engine.c
> Scanning dependencies of target gncmod-engine
> [ 19%] Building CXX object
> libgnucash/engine/CMakeFiles/gncmod-engine.dir/Account.cpp.o
> /home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/Source/v3.7/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp:244:13:
> error: static inline [-Werror]
>   244 | G_INLINE_FUNC void mark_account (Account *acc);
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/steve/Projects/GnuCash/Source/v3.7/libgnucash/engine/Account.cpp:262:13:
> error: G_ADD_PRIVATE [-Werror]
>   262 |     priv = GET_PRIVATE(acc);
>       |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Nope, it's https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797407.

Regards,
John Ralls