[GNC-dev] Problems compiling and running gnucash on linux mint (was: Trouble with gsettings in GC 4.9)

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Dirk,

The log messages seem to indicate you may have a version mismatch in guile between your 
build environment and your runtime environment.

I base that observation on this line
> ;;; note: source file
> /opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/2.2/gnucash/utilities.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled
> /home/banking/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/
> 2.2/gnucash/utilities.scm.go

The '2.0-LE-8-2.0' part suggests your runtime is using guile 2.0, while
this part 'opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/2.2/' suggests your build environment used guile 2.2 
to compile the guile source files in gnucash.

Or a slightly different way to say this - gnucash got linked to guile 2.0 while the guile sources 
were compiled with guile 2.2.

guile 2.0 can't read files compiled with guile 2.2, hence
1. the error message about bad header objects
2. gnucash' attempt to recompile these sources at run time

My first guess is you have not installed the proper -dev package for guile. You may need to 
install guile-2.2-dev (and possibly remove guile-2.0-dev).

Regards,

Geert

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Op vrijdag 7 januari 2022 14:56:57 CET schreef bugzilla:
> Hi Derek,
> thanks for your prompt reply. I am not sure if version 3.8 had been
> uninstalled before the *BUILT* process. So I did the following:
> cd gnucash/build
> sudo make uninstall
> make clean
> rm ~/.cache/dconf/user
> mv /opt/gnucash/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
> /opt/gnucash/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled.bkp
> (there were no other files inside the 'schemas' folder)
> 
> Now I also get error messages that point to /.cache/guile/
> 
> /opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash
> This is a development version. It may or may not work.
> Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> You can also lookup and file bug reports at https://bugs.gnucash.org
> To find the last stable version, please refer to https://www.gnucash.org/
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file
> /opt/gnucash/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/utilities.go
> failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object
> file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01ÿ\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
> ;;; note: source file
> /opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/2.2/gnucash/utilities.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled
> /home/banking/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/
> 2.2/gnucash/utilities.scm.go ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set
> GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
> ;;; compiling /opt/gnucash/share/guile/site/2.2/gnucash/utilities.scm
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file
> /opt/gnucash/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/core-utils.g
> o failed:
> ;;; ERROR: In procedure make_objcode_from_file: bad header on object
> file: "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01ÿ\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file