[GNC-dev] Master: Cannot open or save to SQLite3 database
Chris Good
goodchris96 at gmail.com
Wed May 6 23:42:33 EDT 2020
Hi John,
cd /home/cgood/gnucash-master/build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug -G"Eclipse CDT4 - Ninja"
-DCMAKE_ECLIPSE_GENERATE_SOURCE_PROJECT=TRUE
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install ../src
as per https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Eclipse#With_CMake_.26_Ninja
repo is /home/cgood/gnucash-master/src
Regards,
Chris Good
-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Sent: Thursday, 7 May 2020 3:10 AM
To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Master: Cannot open or save to SQLite3 database
Are you setting CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH on the cmake command line? Better yet,
what's the whole cmake command line that you're using?
Regards,
John Ralls
> On May 5, 2020, at 9:26 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 1:30 PM
> To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Master: Cannot open or save to SQLite3 database
>
>
>
>> On May 5, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2020 1:59 AM
>> To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Master: Cannot open or save to SQLite3
>> database
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 4, 2020, at 7:53 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 5 May 2020 4:28 AM
>>> To: Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Master: Cannot open or save to SQLite3
>>> database
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 3, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> GnuCash master (as at 29 Apr 2020 fbf7171ab Fix
>>>> libgnc-app-utils.dylib
>>>> install_name_dir.) on Ubuntu 18.04
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to open SQLite3 file
>>>> del-account-cross-currencies-issue.gnucash
>>>> attached to bug 797220.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But when I try to open SQLite3 file. It says "no suitable backend
>>>> was
>>> found"
>>>> and if I try to save an xml file, only xml format is available.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have built with no options for turning off SQL ie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Src/CMakeLists.txt: WITH_SQL=ON
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have the following installed
>>>>
>>>> libdbi-dev 0.9.0-5
>>>>
>>>> libdbi1 0.9.0-5
>>>>
>>>> libdbi1-dbg 0.9.0-5
>>>>
>>>> libdbd-sqlite3 0.9.0-5ubuntu2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try to debug, it seems to me:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In gnucash/libgnucash/backend/dbi/gnc-backend-dbi.cpp
>>>> gnc_module_init_backend_dbi()
>>>>
>>>> I can see HAVE_LIBDBI_R is set
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> num_drivers = dbi_initialize_r (driver_dir, &dbi_instance);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> returns num_drivers=0 but dbi_instance is no longer null
>>>> so the code exits before any drivers are registered.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions please?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just built from current master on my Ubuntu-18.04 VM and SQLite3
>>> is an option in Save As...
>>>
>>> If dpi_initialize_r returns 0 then that function (a libdbi one)
>>> didn't find any drivers to initialize. Make sure that GNC_DBD_DIR
>>> isn't set and in gdb at that dpi_initialize_r call check that
>>> driver_dir
> is 0.
>>>
>>> Check that /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/lidbdsqlite3.so and
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 is present.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> GNC_DBD_DIR=/ is set in build/etc/gnucash/environment
>>> Commenting that out enables SQLite to work.
>>>
>>> Here are the libraries:
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdpgsql.la
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdsqlite3.so
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdmysql.la
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdpgsql.so
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdsqlite3.la
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbd/libdbdmysql.so
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbi.so.1.1.0
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbi.a
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbi.so.1
>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbi.so
>>>
>>> cmake 3.10.2-1ubuntu2.18.04.1
>>>
>>> I think the " GNC_DBD_DIR=/" line is added to environment file in
>>> src/gnucash/CMakeLists.txt :
>>>
>>> if (LIBDBI_LIBRARY AND LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR)
>>> get_filename_component(libdir ${LIBDBI_LIBRARY}
>>> DIRECTORY)
>>> string(FIND ${LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR} ${libdir} is_subdir)
>>> if (NOT is_subdir EQUAL 0)
>>> file(APPEND ${BUILD_ENV_FILE_OUT}
>>> "GNC_DBD_DIR=${LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR}")
>>> endif()
>>> endif()
>>>
>>> Before I spend too much time trying to fix this, I am running the
>>> build environment from within eclipse. Is SQLite supported while
>>> running from the build or should I "ninja install" and run from there?
>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> It should run from the build directory. Misconfiguring GNC_DBD_DIR is
>> the obvious problem and would break libdbi regardless of whether
>> GnuCash is installed.
>>
>> You found half of the LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR code; the other half is in
>> the top-level CMakeLists.txt beginning at line 436 (in master):
>> find_library (LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR
>> NAMES dbdmysql dbdpgsql dbdsqlite3 NAMES_PER_DIR PATH_SUFFIXES dbd
>> libdbi-drivers/dbd HINTS LIBDBI_LIBRARY PATHS GNC_DBD_DIR DOC
>> "Libdbi Drivers Directory") If (WITH_SQL) if (NOT
>> LIBDBI_INCLUDE_PATH)
>> message (SEND_ERROR "Include file <dbi/dbi.h> was not found - did
>> you install libdbi0-dev or libdbi-dev?")
>> endif()
>> if (NOT LIBDBI_LIBRARY)
>> message (SEND_ERROR "Library libdbi was not found")
>> endif()
>> set(HAVE_DBI_DBI_H 1)
>> if (NOT LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR)
>> message (SEND_ERROR "No libdbi drivers found, SQL tests will
>> fail.")
>> else()
>> get_filename_component(drivers_dir ${LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR} DIRECTORY)
>> set(LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR ${drivers_dir} CACHE FILEPATH "Directory
>> containing the libdbi driver modules." FORCE)
>> endif()
>> endif()
>>
>> Note that the "found" value of LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR gets overwritten in
>> that last phrase so it might be helpful to insert message(INFO
>> "find_library found drivers at $LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR") just before the
>> get_filename_component() call.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> The problem is that src/CMakeLists.txt does:
>> set(GNC_DBD_DIR ${CMAKE_PREFIX_LIBDIR}/dbd CACHE PATH "specify
>> location of libdbi drivers") and CMAKE_PREFIX_LIBDIR is null (and not
>> used anywhere else...)
>>
>> I see for mac :
>> file(APPEND ${ENV_FILE_OUT} "GNC_DBD_DIR={SYS_LIB}/dbd\n") but
>> SYS_LIB is not set in Ubuntu.
>>
>> What is the functionality we need to cater for?
>> Just using the system dbd libraries and also possibly a special
>> version of the drivers somewhere in build/lib?
>
> Chris,
>
> Don't worry about the MacOS stuff, it doesn't apply to anything else.
>
> Try changing that
> set(GNC_DBD_DIR ${CMAKE_PREFIX_LIBDIR}/dbd CACHE PATH to
> set(GNC_DBD_DIR ${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}/lib/dbd CACHE PATH and re-run cmake.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> Hi John,
>
> No good. The result of that is GNC_DBD_DIR=/dbd still.
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
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