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[Jean Laroche]

The fun never ends.
After your patches and latest commits, I restarted the installation from 
fresh to figure out what was still broken.
In addition to the things I previously ran into and aren't fixed yet 
(which I'll list in a message when I get the build done), there's a new 
one as of today:

wget --continue 
https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/attachments/download/232/aqbanking-5.99.45.tar.gz 
-O /Users/gnucash/gnucash-stable/src/pkgs/aqbanking-5.99.45.tar.gz
--2020-03-06 11:15:23-- 
https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/attachments/download/232/aqbanking-5.99.45.tar.gz
Resolving www.aquamaniac.de (www.aquamaniac.de)... 85.214.28.143
Connecting to www.aquamaniac.de 
(www.aquamaniac.de)|85.214.28.143|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-03-06 11:15:23 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Apparently, aqbanking-5.99.45.tar.gz has disappeared from that site. 
There are new versions dated 3/6/2020 here: 
https://www.aquamaniac.de/rdm/projects/aqbanking/files but none of these 
are aqbanking-5.99.45.tar.gz

There's a version here: 
https://github.com/aqbanking/aqbanking/releases/tag/5.99.45 but that 
does not compile for me.

Does anyone know anything about that?
Jean


On 3/5/20 7:50 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 5, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>>
>> Op donderdag 5 maart 2020 20:54:54 CET schreef John Ralls:
>>> That's because its-tool looks for python and python-config instead of
>>> python3 and python3-config so it finds the virtenv python and of course
>>> libxml2.py isn't installed there. As I said I usually drop to the shell and
>>> create those symlinks then re-run itstool's configure. Your fix installed
>>> it in the virtenv instead and that's fine for GnuCash.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>> Would it be hard to patch its-tool's config scripts to look for the right file names instead ?
> 
> Unfortunately yes. AM_PATH_PYTHON, like so much else automake, is stuck in the 1990s and that's what itstool uses to find Python.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>