[GNC-dev] Gnucash % Build on Linux MInt

[David Cousens]

Thanks Geert,

I usually build from the tarball but for some reason wasn't able to download it
from the website yesterday so I tried downloading it from Github.

David

On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 20:34 +0800, Geert Janssens wrote:
> The big difference is a git clone can generate de required file because the
> needed info is in the clone metadata. The zip file is automatically generated
> by github. We don't control this and unfortunately it doesn't contain the info
> the build needs. For that reason each release is accompanied with a release
> tarball, generated by the gnucash developers themselves and that does have 
> the missing file. You can find links to the tarball in the release
> announcements.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> schreef op 28 maart 2023 14:23:24 GMT+08:00:
> > That worked for me too Stephen, thnaks. 
> > 
> > The missing file is still not there in the git clone of the repository, so
> > either the cmake is looking for and finding it  it elsewhere but the downloaded
> > ZIP still isn't compiling.
> > Cheers
> > David
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> > gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
> Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity.