developer report

[Hagen Riedel]

I am using SuSE 9.1 Professional and tried to compile gnucash-1.8.9 as I wanted to do homebanking with 
Reiner SCT Chipcard reader. There was no information about starting HBCI due to my distribution. The 
openhbci_plugin_ddvcard was not shipped by the distributor that was necessary to activate the chipcard 
medium option - as I got to know later on. This is a short report of the proceeding. 
 
For README: You might add some hook that there is a README.HBCI and some other docs in "doc/" (in the source 
directory). There is no reference to HBCI even in the gnucash-docs. There even was no README.HBCI in the 
SuSE 9.1 package. 
 
Before compiling gnucash I had to set up various links so configure could find the libs: 
in /usr/lib/ 
libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.0 
libdb.so -> libdb-4.2.so 
libdb1.a -> libdb.a 
libdb_cxx.so -> libdb_cxx-4.2.so 
libesd.so -> libesd.so.0.2.33 
libesddsp.so -> libesddsp.so.0.2.33 
libfontconfig.so -> libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 
libfreetype.so -> libfreetype.so.6.3.5 
libgwenhywfar.so -> libgwenhywfar.so.13.0.0 
libgwenhywfar.so.13 -> libgwenhywfar.so.13.0.0 
libpopt.so -> libpopt.so.1.0.0 
libssl.so -> libssl.so.0 
libxml.so -> libxml.so.1.8.17 
as well as in /opt/gnome/lib 
libbonobo-print.so -> libbonobo-print.so.2.0.1 
libbonobo.so -> libbonobo.so.2.0.1 
libbonobox.so -> libbonobox.so.2.0.1 
and  in /usr/bin 
glib-config -> /opt/gnome/bin/glib-config 
g-wrap-config -> /usr/local/bin/g-wrap-config 
gnome-config -> /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-config 
gtk-config -> /opt/gnome/bin/gtk-config 
Actually I don't know if it were some more or less - it took two hours until configure proceeded up to the 
end. 
 
 
As libguppi was part of the SuSE gnucash package I had to retrieve it, compile it (and 
link /usr/local/lib/guppi to /usr/lib - so I did at least). 
 
I can assure that gnucash does not run without the patch. However, for some moment I had doubt that the 
patch was successful. Here is the output (verbose) from patch: 
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me... 
The text leading up to this was: 
-------------------------- 
|--- Guppi-0.40.3/libguppitank/guppi-object-barchart.c  2003-05-30 
|21:21:16.000000000 +0200
|+++ Guppi-0.40.4/libguppitank/guppi-object-barchart.c  2003-05-30 
|+++ 21:21:26.000000000 +0200
-------------------------- 
Patching file Guppi-0.40.3/libguppitank/guppi-object-barchart.c using Plan A... 
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1. 
Hunk #2 succeeded at 410. 
Hunk #3 succeeded at 447. 
Hunk #4 succeeded at 500. 
Hunk #5 succeeded at 508. 
Hunk #6 succeeded at 530. 
Hunk #7 succeeded at 566. 
Hunk #8 succeeded at 575. 
Hunk #9 succeeded at 628. 
Hunk #10 succeeded at 678. 
Hunk #11 FAILED at 875. 
2 out of 11 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Guppi-0.40.3/libguppitank/guppi-object-barchart.c.rej 
done 
When I examined this message I could recognize that hunk #1 and hunk #11 had been comments. 
 
Notice that there is something mixed up in the configure script. The command "mkdir po" seems to come a 
litted bit too late. So for the first time you execute it you will get something like this: 
creating config.h 
mv: cannot stat `po/POTFILES': No such file or directory 
./config.status: line 1093: po/POTFILES.tmp: No such file or directory 
creating po/POTFILES 
creating po/Makefile 
 
For the second time this is OK. 
creating config.h 
config.h is unchanged 
creating po/POTFILES 
creating po/Makefile 
 
Though libgtkhtml-2.4.1-140 (as well as gtkhtml-devel-1.1.10-195 and gtkhtml-1.1.10-195) is installed there 
appears the following error report. I did not bother about this as this package was not mandatory 
neccessary. 
checking for gtkhtml < 1.1... Unknown library `gtkhtml' 
Unknown library `gtkhtml' 
 
That the esound-devel package is needed revealed in an error during make only. 
 
When gnucash will probably work with chipcardd2/chipcardc2 and openhbci_plugin_ddvcard2? 
As I did not recognize that this are completely new designed packages (there is no much docu now) I firstly 
tried to use them. Gnucash reports nothing. So I recommend at least to mention this in the README.HBCI 
(requirements) and README (dependencies). 
 
I'm glad to report that I could successfully connect to my bank. For the first time there happened some 
segmention fault with the initial HBCI setup when I should match the HBCI accounts with GnuCash accounts. I 
will report in future. 
 
During installation I experienced that rpmbuild often halted with the messages "cannot stat ...", "no such 
file or directory" or "Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found". With GnuCash it was the same: 
In file included from basiccell.c:42: 
../../../src/gnome-utils/dialog-utils.h:28:25: glade/glade.h: No such file or directory 
 
Why the rpmbuild often stops although at the same time the make runs without any warning? 
 
 
Best regards! 
 
Hagen Riedel
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