[GNC-dev] Gnucash % Build on Linux MInt

[John Ralls]

David,

You have to be careful when downloading from Github to download the tar.gz or tar.bz2 (in this case gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2) and avoid the "Source code" downloads.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:55 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
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