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

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

>> > 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?
>> 
> I was just looking into it.
>
> The cause of the failure confuses me. The mingw test tries to run g++ and 
> mingw32-make. Both of them are part of the mingw installation and this should 
> fail if mingw isn't installed. Since the mingw mount point is changed just 
> before this to an non-existing directory, running g++ and mingw32-make should 
> fail, but for some reason it doesn't.
>
> Hence the script assumes mingw is installed and continues but fails a bit 
> later because it can't find one of mingw's libraries. So it seems that a tag 
> build picks up another mingw somewhere. I haven't figured out where that might 
> come from.

Maybe the custom.sh?

> Anyway, I managed to work around this by manually setting the mingw mountpoint 
> before calling "build_package.sh 2.4.10-1"
>
> The build is running now. We'll see if it succeeds.

Maybe it could also be the "-1" that is confusing it?
It should be able to automate a build for any tag.

> Geert

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-derek

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