Problem importing qif files in gnucash on fink

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Andy <andy at themoores.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi Dave & Charles,
>
> I have installed 2.2.9 with fink but with exactly the same results.
>
> I have also tested the qif file in gnucash on windows and it works fine.


OK, so since this file works on Windows and MacPorts, it's starting to
really sound specific to fink. Perhaps Dave has some suggestions? I have no
clue about fink. You could do a backtrace with gdb. That might help a lot.


>
> Charles,
>
> I'm not sure where to look for a trace file but there isn't one in either
> /tmp or ~/.gnucash
>

I'm not sure where it would be. If you're launching GnuCash from the command
line, you could try just logging to the terminal instead by adding this to
your command: --logto stdout


> Andrew
>

-Charles


>
>
> Dave Reiser wrote:
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>> From: Andy <andy at themoores.me.uk>
>>> Sent: Apr 27, 2009 1:16 PM
>>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Problem importing qif files in gnucash on fink
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have recently moved from macports to fink and would prefer not to have
>>> to move back again.
>>>
>>> I have installed gnucash with fink without any errors but I'm having
>>> problems importing a qif file.
>>>
>>> When I attempt to import the file it finds no qif accounts and no qif
>>> categories and leaves the gnucash accounts unaltered with no error
>>> message.
>>>
>>> The file imported correctly under gnucash with macports so it's probably
>>> to do with the slightly older version in fink or the fink install itself.
>>>
>>> I have the most recent version of X11 and Xtools and I'm using an Intel
>>> MacBook.
>>>
>>> Fink version: 0.28.7
>>> Mac OS X version: 10.5.6
>>> Versions of relevant packages: gnucash2 - 2.2.5-152
>>> fink command that filed: Gnucash:Import->Import QIF
>>> Any error messages that look useful: "gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc
>>> relocation support was disabled at configure time. Found Finance::Quote
>>> version 1.13"
>>>
>>> Any help would be great,
>>>  Andrew
>>>
>>>  Andrew,
>>
>> Version 2.2.9 is available in fink if you enable the unstable tree. I
>> would have moved 2.2.9 to stable, but a bunch of the gnome dependencies need
>> to move to stable before I can do that. If you run 'fink configure', and
>> answer yes to the question about using unstable, then the next time you run
>> 'fink selfupdate' you'll get all the package descriptions fink will need to
>> let you 'fink update gnucash2' to version 2.2.9
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>