[GNC-dev] Build Fail for GC 4.1 on Linux MInt 20

[David Cousens]

John, Frank,

Not sure what is happening here. Wehn Linux Mint 20 was released it was released with GnuCash 4.0 so someone succeeded
in building it. I'v put a queston on the Mint forums to see if anyone there has had a similar proble. The same patch
versions of libdbi and the drivers are in the Ubuntu Focal release as well so i would have expected others to have had
problems if it was something general.

David

On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 10:06 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> > On Jul 31, 2020, at 9:15 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone had any problems building GC 4.1 on Linux (Mint 20 Ulyana)? Cmake completes without problems, but I am
> > getting multiple errors during the ninja build related to the database backend libraries:
> > 
> > libdbi: Failed to load driver: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdmysql.so
> > wrote `/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.1/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-
> > ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/report/payables.go'
> > 
> > The default versions on LM20 of libdbi and the libdbd modules are:
> > dpkg -l | grep libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-mysql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        MySQL
> > database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-pgsql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        PostgreSQL database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-sqlite3:amd64                                        0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        SQLite3 
> > database driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbi-dev                                                  0.9.0-5                             amd64        DB
> > Independent Abstraction Layer for C  -- development files
> > ii  libdbi1:amd64                                               0.9.0-5 
> > 
> > 0.8.3 of the above are the required version in the dpkg -l | grep libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-mysql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        MySQL
> > database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-pgsql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        PostgreSQL database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-sqlite3:amd64                                        0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        SQLite3 
> > database driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbi-dev                                                  0.9.0-5                             amd64        DB
> > Independent Abstraction Layer for C  -- development files
> > ii  libdbi1:amd64                                               0.9.0-5 
> > 
> > 
> > dpkg -l | grep libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-mysql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        MySQL
> > database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-pgsql:amd64                                          0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        PostgreSQL database server driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbd-sqlite3:amd64                                        0.9.0-
> > 8ubuntu1                      amd64        SQLite3 
> > database driver for libdbi
> > ii  libdbi-dev                                                  0.9.0-5                             amd64        DB
> > Independent Abstraction Layer for C  -- development files
> > ii  libdbi1:amd64                                               0.9.0-5 
> > 
> > README.dependencies specifies v0.8.3 of the above libraries. Does anyone else have problems building with 0.9.0 or
> > will
> > I have to revert?
> 
> Libdbi 0.9.0 has been out for almost 10 years and is what most distros have been shipping since. That's not the
> problem. More likely is that MySQL/MariaDB got upgraded and the libdbd-drivers didn't so libdbdmysql.so can't link
> libmysql.so.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>