GnuCash wont build anymore (From SVN)

Tor Harald Thorland linux at strigen.com
Tue Nov 22 10:29:11 EST 2005


Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Tor Harald Thorland <linux at strigen.com>:
>
>>>>  svn info . | grep '^Revision: ' | sed 's/Revision: //'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Did run this, but no output. (It might be some other obvious things i
>> shall do with the next line but I'm not realy into this, both shell &
>> programming)
>> svn info . | grep '^Revision: ' | sed 's/Revision: //'
>>
>>
>> But explain this! I did a svn update, and then builded the new version
>> of gnucash.
>>
>> The splashscreen even showed the build ver 12015, so no problems...
>>
>> WHY? Didn't you only supply a check for the version file..
>
>
> no, I did more to it..  In particular it was pointed out to me that
> if you're running in a non-English locale it's possible that "svn info"
> isn't printing out the string "Revision: ..." -- so the code would
> fail to find the revision.
>
> I changed the Makefile so it runs "svn info" in the C locale to
> force it to output English..  So it shouldn't fail anymore.
>
So this is my system sending out a norwegian string to it.
Thanks a lot for the help. I built it 2 times now just to check and it
works perfect.

Tor Harald


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