[GNC-dev] Build error with scm-engine on current master

[Christian Gruber]

This thread is related to the build issue I encountered when finally 
building PR #574 <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/574> locally.

Invoking "make all" on current master lead to the following build error 
when compiling libgnucash/engine/engine-utilities.scm:

Backtrace:            1 (primitive-load-path 
"gnucash/engine/gnc-numeric") In ice-9/boot-9.scm:    752:25  0 
(dispatch-exception _ _ _) ice-9/boot-9.scm:752:25: In procedure 
dispatch-exception: In procedure primitive-load-path: Unable to find 
file "gnucash/engine/gnc-numeric" in load path

File libgnucash/engine/engine-utilities.scm is built with target 
scm-engine-1, therefore the same build error can be reproduced by 
invoking "make scm-engine-1" or "make scm-engine" as well.

According to PR #574 <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/574>  I 
can preclude, that this is due to reusing a maint build directory, since 
I built in a clean and fresh build dir.

Next I tried to build again after moving directories 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/gnucash and files 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash/libgnc*.so.

After that I uninstalled my GnuCash 3.5, which was installed before from 
distros package manager.

Finally I searched my whole system for gnucash directories and removed 
them in /usr/local/... where I previously installed GnuCash built from 
source repo.

Everytime I built in a clean and fresh build dir, but the build error 
was always the same.

Finally I further investigated sources and found a maybe important 
change in file libgnucash/engine/engine.scm made in commit 53f59f7. 
Therefore I tried two builds at the end, one with commit 53f59f7 and the 
second with commit cb50f7a, which is one commit before 53f59f7. The 
result was, that commit 53f59f7 leads to the mentioned build error, but 
commit cb50f7a could successfully be built.

Any ideas?

Christian