[GNC-dev] Building GnuCash 4.0 on Linux MInt20

[Christopher Lam]

You have guile-3.0 which has backward incompatible changes, and not yet
supported. Try guile-2.2.

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 00:20, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Having a problem building on a new install of Linux Mint Ulyana (20).
>
> Can anyone make sense of the following? It appears to be a problem with
> gettext. I have 0.19.8.1-10build1 installed but
> noted in the cmake initial output when I was installing the dependencies
> that 2.0 was preferred but only required for
> building a translation file. I assumed this to mean 0.19.8 would be OK for
> the app.
>
> Cmake output:
> $ cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DWITH_PYTHON=ON ..
> CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:251 (message):
>   Gettext version 0.20 or more recent is required to translate the
>   'developer_name' tag in gnucash.appdata.xml.  All but that tag will be
>   translated in the generated file.
>
>
> -- Using guile-2.0.x
> -- Using guile SRFI-64
> -- Using guile textual-ports
> -- Checking for GTEST
> -- Checking for GMOCK
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
> -- Build files have been written to:
> /home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build
>
> ninja output:
> $ ninja
> [6/243] Generating
> ../../lib/x86_64-li...cache/gnucash/app-utils/c-interface.go
> FAILED:
> lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/app-utils/c-interface.go
> cd /home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/libgnucash/app-utils &&
> /usr/bin/cmake -E env
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/gnucash:
> GNC_UNINSTALLED=YES GNC_BUILDDIR=/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build
>
> GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/libgnucash/app-utils:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-
>
> 4.0/build/libgnucash/app-utils:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/libgnucash/app-
>
> utils/deprecated:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/share/guile/site/3.0
>
> GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/libgnucash/app-
>
> utils:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-
>
> ccache:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated
>
> GNC_MODULE_PATH=/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib:/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/gnucash:
> /usr/bin/guile -e "(@@ (guild) main)" -s /usr/bin/guild compile -o
> /home/david/Applications/gnucash-
> 4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/app-utils/c-interface.go
> /home/david/Applications/gnucash-
> 4.0/libgnucash/app-utils/c-interface.scm
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Syntax error:
> c-interface.scm:83:21: _: bad use of '_' syntactic keyword in subform (_
> (hash-ref string-hash key)) of (_ (hash-ref
> string-hash key))
> [7/243] Generating
> ../../lib/x86_64-li...ucash/deprecated/migrate-prefs-user.go
> wrote
> `/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/migrate-
> prefs-user.go'
> [8/243] Generating
> ../../lib/x86_64-li...he/gnucash/deprecated/migrate-prefs.go
> wrote
> `/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/migrate-
> prefs.go'
> [12/243] Generating
> ../../lib/x86_64-l...deprecated/gnucash/unittest-support.go
> wrote
> `/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-
> ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/unittest-support.go'
> [13/243] Generating
> ../../lib/x86_64-l.../gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/gettext.go
> wrote
> `/home/david/Applications/gnucash-4.0/build/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/3.0/site-
> ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/gettext.go'
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
>
> cmake error log attached
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