Can't run 2.4.10 (was: GnuCash 2.4.10 released)

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Feb 11 11:50:24 EST 2012


On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:11 AM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
>> Op donderdag 9 februari 2012 08:43:31 schreef John Ralls:
>>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>> Op donderdag 9 februari 2012 17:01:22 schreef Geert Janssens:
>>>>> Op woensdag 8 februari 2012 18:02:36 schreef John Ralls:
>>>>>> I just looked, and there was a snap re-release (2.24.10) on Monday,
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> the Win32 binaries are up at ftp.gnome.org. After testing that it
>>>>>> builds, I committed a change to the GC 2.4 branch, so you and Geert
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> try tomorrow's nightly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have just ran a successful test with the latest nightly. It works
>>>>> fine on my 16bit remote desktop connection. Yay !
>>>>> 
>>>>> Geert
>>>> 
>>>> Just wondering:
>>>> - this one fix probably doesn't warrant a new release, does it ?
>>>> - with this fix, it looks like the 2.4 Windows build is fully working
>>>> with the newer gtk. Have all the required fixes been forward-ported to
>>>> trunk already ?
>>> No, I don't think so.  What would the buildbot do if I change defaults.sh on
>>> the 2.4.10 tag? Or make a new 2.4.10-1 tag and change defaults.sh there?
>> From what I read in the build_tags.sh script (which you can find in 
>> packaging/win32), both may result in a new tag build for 2.4.10, though I'm 
>> not really sure.
>> 
>> If changing defaults.sh in the 2.4.10 directory would increment the revision 
>> number on the directory itself, that would trigger a new build.
>> 
>> Tagging with 2.4.10-1 creates a new tag, which should also trigger a build. I 
>> think this approach would be cleaner than to modify an officially released 
>> tag.
>> 
> 
> OK, I just tagged r21977 as 2.4.10-1, and I'll replace the download on SF and uptdate the website pointers tomorrow morning after it builds.

And it tried to build and failed in MinGW. Can someone with shell access have a look and relaunch it?

Regards,
John Ralls




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