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

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Christian,

With the last commit on master it works here now.

Can you retry ?

Geert

Op donderdag 12 september 2019 09:47:43 CEST schreef Geert Janssens:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> Thanks to your detailed description I can now reproduce the problem when
> building master with "make" rather than "ninja".
> 
> Turns out there's a hidden circular dependency between engine.scm and
> engine- utilities.scm via the call to
> (gnc:module-begin-syntax (gnc:module-load "gnucash/engine" 0))
> 
> I have a fix ready for this particular case, but there are more of these so
> I'm still working through the others.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op donderdag 12 september 2019 00:46:13 CEST schreef 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
> > 
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