gnucash-user Digest, Vol 131, Issue 30

Richard Lindgren rlindgren74 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 12:25:49 EST 2014


Subject: Re: No price updates anymore

Are we looking at the no price retrieval as a bug that needs looking at, or
is something wrong on my end?

Please advise.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Richard


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>    1. Advanced Portfolio report update (Mike Alexander)
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>    3. Re: Advanced Portfolio Report (Alun Champion)
>    4. Re: Balance Sheet is not balanced (Jenny Li)
>    5. No price updates anymore (liberace)
>    6. Re: No price updates anymore (Russell Mercer)
>    7. Re: Advanced Portfolio Report (Chris Good)
>    8. Re: No price updates anymore (Geert Janssens)
>    9. Re: Advanced Portfolio report update (Richard Ullger)
>   10. OFX versions supported? (John Gowing)
>   11. Re: Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9 (R. Victor Klassen)
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>   13. Gnucash-htdocs Repository Regeneration Complete (Geert Janssens)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:45:45 -0500
> From: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
> To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Advanced Portfolio report update
> Message-ID: <723843C09652BD87748D1B22 at bayswater.msalexander.com>
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> I just checked in a new version of the Advanced Portfolio report which
> I think fixes all the reported problems with the previous version.
> Fixing these required essentially rewriting the main loop of the
> report.  As a result I may well have introduced new bugs so I would
> appreciate it if you would try it and see if it works correctly for
> your data.
>
> There are also two changes to the options in this version.  The
> brokerage fees option is now a three-valued switch: include in basis,
> include in gains/losses but not basis, or ignore.
>
> This version of the report calculates money in and out of the stock
> account directly instead of inferring it from other splits.  In
> connection with this change there is a new option that causes the
> report to ignore money into or out of an account that is the parent or
> a sibling of the account it is working on.  This can be used to make
> certain DRP transactions work better if the dividend passes through an
> parent or sibling account before being reinvested.
>
> Since SVN is not longer used used for GnuCash, you need to get the new
> version from GitHub if you don't want to wait for 2.6.2.  The URL for
> it is
>
> <
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/report/standard-reports/advanced-portfolio.scm
> >
>
> Near the top of that page there is a button labeled "Raw".  In Firefox,
> at least, if you right click on that button and select "Save Link
> As..." it will save a copy of the report to a location you specify.
>
> Please let me know if there are problems.
>
>          Mike
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:05:45 -0600
> From: Alun Champion <alun at achampion.net>
> To: Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
> Message-ID:
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> >> Maybe I've missed something.
> >> Why do we need to distinguish between them. The dividend income
> >> reduces the cost basis, and the subsequent purchase is treated the
> >> same as any normal purchase of the stocks (increases number of shares
> >> and increase cost basis).
> >> Is there really anything special about the second purchase other that
> >> it is done automatically and limited to the amount you receive as a
> >> dividend.
> >
> > They need to be distinguished because dividend reinvestment should
> > increase the cost basis but should not be included in the money in
> > column. This is not money I have put in but has come from an income
> > distribution.
>
> Isn't this reflected in the income column. Either it is income that
> you've elected to reinvest (cost basis and money in) or it isn't
> income but a distribution of shares (presumably this doesn't affect
> cost basis or money in).
>
> >> The problem with a single transaction is the attribution is wrong. The
> >> expenses do not reduce the income but increase the cost basis for the
> >> purchase. Income should remains 374.92, cost basis for the purchase of
> >> 374.22 (366.95 + expenses)
> >> Do the expenses get double counted both as an increase in the cost
> >> basis + a decrease in the income or only the latter? If only the
> >> latter then the totals still remain correct, but the attribution is
> >> wrong.
> >
> > You mean 372.44?. The current report doesn't include expenses in the
> > basis column but Mike has that covered with a new setting. The income
> > reflected in the income column is the actual income received and should
> > not be reduced by the expenses or have I misunderstood your point?
>
> Yes 372.44. I agree that income should not be affected by the expenses
> only the cost basis.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:07:56 -0600
> From: Alun Champion <alun at achampion.net>
> To: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
> Cc: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
> Message-ID:
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> It was clumsy wording income is subtracted from cost basis when
> calculating rate of return, not a tax consideration.
> I look at the Advanced Portfolio more to get a sense of performance
> not tax implications.
>
> On 12 February 2014 12:14, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> > --On February 12, 2014 9:48:26 AM -0600 David Carlson
> > <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In the US, your third sentence "The dividend income reduces the cost
> >> basis..." does not apply to the tax code computation for capital gains
> >> or losses.  However, round trip (purchase and sale) commissions do
> >> reduce the cost basis and net capital gain or loss in this country.  I
> >> believe that is not true in some other countries.  If not, then
> >> perhaps the report could use an option for US computation versus
> >> Canada or Australia, for example.
> >
> >
> > This is the first time I've heard of dividends affecting the basis. The
> > report has no provision for that.
> >
> > I'm adding an option to control whether commissions and other fees affect
> > the basis (US style) or not.  In order to fix this and other problems,
> I've
> > had to rewrite the main loop in the report (it was getting very
> convoluted).
> > The new version is running now, but needs more testing.  I'll let you
> know
> > when it's ready to try.
> >
> >       Mike
> >
> >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:00:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jenny Li <jenny.lilan at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Balance Sheet is not balanced
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> Dear Ian,
>
> Thank you for the answer. However, it seems hard to use trading accounts as
> I got tons of transaction for last 15 months and I don't think I have
> chance to change all of them for one go. I need to submit BS report for
> year end auditing in a week.
>
> I plan to use monthly adjustment based on BS result and create one account
> " Currency Exchange Loss/ Gain" under Expenses Account to adjust it each
> month which Mike mentioned.
>
> I am going to try today.
>
> If you have any other solutions, please kindly tell me. Thank you very
> much.
>
> Jenny
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Ian K [via GnuCash] <
> ml-node+s1415818n4668222h34 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:
>
> > If you are using multiple currencies then you need to use Trading
> > Accounts. The Balance Sheet does not balance otherwise.
> > This question crops up from time to time, and there are various
> > discussions about it, one of which I think is useful can be found HERE<
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Trading-accounts-when-do-they-make-sense-td4656583.html
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:50:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: liberace <philsdutchie at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: No price updates anymore
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> Hi,
>
> Since yesterday I cant update the prices anymore. The error message is
> "*There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes*.
>
> Could it be that this is the result of some updates ?
>
> gnucash --debug
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure
> time.
>
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.18
>
> I am using GnuCash 2.4.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>
>
>
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:15:17 -0800
> From: Russell Mercer <rmercer206 at gmail.com>
> To: liberace <philsdutchie at gmail.com>
> Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: No price updates anymore
> Message-ID:
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>
> I was able to retrieve quotes yesterday, but today when I press "Get
> Quotes", the perl window opens as normal when the process runs, but then
> closes and an error box appears with the following message:  Unable to
> retrieve quotes for these items:
>
> It then lists all of the securities.
>
> I am running Windows 7 64 bit on an Intel i5 system.
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:50 PM, liberace <philsdutchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since yesterday I cant update the prices anymore. The error message is
> > "*There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes*.
> >
> > Could it be that this is the result of some updates ?
> >
> > gnucash --debug
> > gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> > configure
> > time.
> >
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.18
> >
> > I am using GnuCash 2.4.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:16:21 +1100
> From: Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
> Message-ID: <2F35DAA2-ACE8-4EA2-AD3E-866AC0ED508F at ozemail.com.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=us-ascii
>
>
> This is all rather ambiguous, but I think I disagree. I'm not an
> accountant so I'm happy to be corrected... I'm in Australia BTW.
>
> IMHO dividends should be included in Income on the report.
> If you are in a DRP, then any dividend you spend on new shares, should be
> included in 'Money In' and the 'Cost Basis'. Effectively you are spending
> your dividend on new shares, so you're definitely putting money in.
>
> Regards, Chris Good
>
> >
> > Message: 9
> > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:01:03 -0500
> > From: Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>
> > To: Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio Report
> > Message-ID: <A9CEC509181277198C7909AD at bayswater.msalexander.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> >
> > --On February 11, 2014 5:52:48 PM +0000 Richard Ullger
> > <rullger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In my mind, money in is money used for share purchases that I have put
> >> in myself (capital employed) and does not include dividend or interest
> >> income. I would expect it to include charges for the original purchase
> >> but not for the dividend reinvestment, where charges are paid from the
> >> dividend. So money in would be the total purchase price of my original
> >> investment and any subsequent investment not derived from dividend
> >> income. Dividend/interest income can be identified as money entered
> >> into a stock account containing a split to a sub-account of the
> >> income top level account. Money in can be identified as the money
> >> used in a stock account purchase that is not entered against the
> >> stock account as income. Taking the above dividend reinvestment
> >> transaction as an example (I have excluded some of the sub-account
> >> levels for brevity), income would be ?374.92, money in would be
> >> ?0.00.
> >>
> >> Recorded as one transaction:
> >>
> >> Asset:Broker:Stock Account - 366.95 (Buy)
> >> Expenses:Commission - 3.66 (Buy)
> >> Expenses:Stamp Duty - 1.83 (Buy)
> >> Asset:Broker:Cash - 372.44 (Sell)
> >> Income:Dividend Income - 374.92 (Sell)
> >> Asset:Broker:Cash - 374.92 (Buy)
> >
> > The version I'm working on handles this more or less the way you
> > suggest, I think.  If the two new options are set to ignore money in or
> > out to parent and sibling accounts and to ignore brokerage fees it
> > seems ok, with perhaps one exception.  Income is shown as 2.48 which is
> > the portion that was not reinvested.  I did it this way to avoid double
> > counting things.  The reinvested dividend goes into the value of the
> > stock so shows up as unrealized gain (depending on what happens to the
> > price).  If you also include it in income then it will be in total
> > return twice.  It's more accurate, I think, to include it in unrealized
> > gain since that will reflect price changes since the dividend was
> > reinvested.
> >
> > Does this make any sense?  Do you have a suggestion for a better way to
> > handle it?
> >
> >
> > *********************************************
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:30:56 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: liberace <philsdutchie at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: No price updates anymore
> Message-ID: <51575743.fGcJOBEbLh at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> On Thursday 13 February 2014 00:15:17 Russell Mercer wrote:
> > I was able to retrieve quotes yesterday, but today when I press "Get
> > Quotes", the perl window opens as normal when the process runs, but
> > then closes and an error box appears with the following message:
> > Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:
> >
> > It then lists all of the securities.
> >
> > I am running Windows 7 64 bit on an Intel i5 system.
> >
> > Any insight would be appreciated.
> >
> If you haven't changed anything on your system in between, the most likely
> cause of this
> issue is that yahoo has changed its api again. This has happened before.
> Since I have seen
> several independent reports of this the last couple of hours this is
> really the most likely to
> have happened.
>
> You can only wait for an updated Finance::Quote package that has adapted
> to the changed
> api. You can (and are encouraged) to report this issue to the
> Finance::Quote maintainers.
> They track their bugs here:
>
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Status=Active&Name=Finance-Quote
>
> Geert
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:33:26 +0000
> From: Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Advanced Portfolio report update
> Message-ID:
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> tt2QYhRbGDKaCUpufzr4efLrtjvBwaATw at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 13 Feb 2014 06:48, "Mike Alexander" <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I just checked in a new version of the Advanced Portfolio report which I
> think fixes all the reported problems with the previous version. Fixing
> these required essentially rewriting the main loop of the report.  As a
> result I may well have introduced new bugs so I would appreciate it if you
> would try it and see if it works correctly for your data.
> >
> > There are also two changes to the options in this version.  The brokerage
> fees option is now a three-valued switch: include in basis, include in
> gains/losses but not basis, or ignore.
> >
> > This version of the report calculates money in and out of the stock
> account directly instead of inferring it from other splits.  In connection
> with this change there is a new option that causes the report to ignore
> money into or out of an account that is the parent or a sibling of the
> account it is working on.  This can be used to make certain DRP
> transactions work better if the dividend passes through an parent or
> sibling account before being reinvested.
> >
> > Since SVN is not longer used used for GnuCash, you need to get the new
> version from GitHub if you don't want to wait for 2.6.2.  The URL for it is
> >
> > <
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/report/standard-reports/advanced-portfolio.scm
> >
> >
> > Near the top of that page there is a button labeled "Raw".  In Firefox,
> at least, if you right click on that button and select "Save Link As..." it
> will save a copy of the report to a location you specify.
> >
> > Please let me know if there are problems.
> >
> >         Mike
> >
>
> Thanks Mike, I appreciate the work you've done on this report and will take
> a look as soon as I can.
>
> Richard.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:51:00 +0200
> From: John Gowing <john.gowing at jotrago.co.za>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: OFX versions supported?
> Message-ID: <52FCCDC4.1090200 at jotrago.co.za>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>    Hi,
>    OFX imports from my bank suddenly stopped working.
>    Comparison of the current files with the last working one from 2 months
>    ago reveals a significant change in content even though the version in
>    the header is still stated as 1.0.2.
>    Checking on [1]www.ofx.net I see we are now up to version 2.1.1, and
>    more significantly that a major change from SGML to XML occured going
>    from 1.6 to 2.0
>    I suspect my problem lies with the bank's implementation (and they are
>    investigating) however this does raise the question of which version(s)
>    of OFX are supported in GNUCash ?
>    And hence, if my bank has moved to a newer version, and they fix their
>    headers accordingly, what are my chances of being able to import from
>    newer version of OFX?
>    Regards
>
>    --
>    _______________________________________________________________________
>
>         John Gowing
>    [2]JoTraGo - Right First Time, Better Next
>
>                JoTraGo
>
>       [3]www.jotrago.co.za
>
> References
>
>    1. http://www.ofx.net/
>    2. http://www.jotrago.co.za/
>    3. http://www.jotrago.co.za/
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:08:29 -0500
> From: "R. Victor Klassen" <rvklassen at gmail.com>
> To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Cc: GNU Cash User <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: Python bindings on Mac OS 10.9
> Message-ID: <80962349-58D2-4D43-9637-E54C53F2EC98 at gmail.com>
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> Not terribly enlightening.
>
> The first error I found was of the form:
>
> #include <minix/config.h>
>          ^
> 1 error generated.
> configure:4706: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GnuCash"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gnucash"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.6.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GnuCash 2.6.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "gnucash-devel at gnucash.org"
> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> | #define PACKAGE "gnucash"
> | #define VERSION "2.6.0"
> | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
> | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
> | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> | #include <minix/config.h>
>
> Also?
>
> configure:5292: checking for XML::Parser
> configure:5295: result: ok
> configure:5320: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>   "__nl_msg_cat_cntr", referenced from:
>       _main in conftest-2MtaNn.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
> configure:5320: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GnuCash"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gnucash"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.6.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GnuCash 2.6.0"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "gnucash-devel at gnucash.org"
> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> | #define PACKAGE "gnucash"
> | #define VERSION "2.6.0"
> | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
> | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
> | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
> | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
> | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
> | #define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
> | #define _ALL_SOURCE 1
> | #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> | #define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
> | #define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> | extern int _nl_msg_cat_cntr;
> |                        return _nl_msg_cat_cntr
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
>
> And a similar complaint about libintl.h
>
> And <ac_nonexistent.h>
>
> And <pow.h>
>
> And <dl.h>
>
> And <mcheck.h>
>
> All of the above, I can?t tell whether they're real issues, or just
> diagnostic tests.
>
> Just before the ##???????---##
>                          ## Cache variables. ##
>
> section, I found:
>
> configure:20503: checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5
> configure:20507: result: yes
> configure:20511: checking GUILE_CFLAGS
> configure:20514: result: -D_THREAD_SAFE
> -I/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/include
> -I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include
> configure:20517: checking GUILE_LIBS
> configure:20520: result: -L/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/lib
> -L/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/lib
> -lguile -arch i386 -isysroot
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.8 -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -lgmp -lm -lltdl
> configure:20544: checking for guile
> configure:20577: result: no
> configure:20583: error: guile required but not found
>
>
> which was about as informative as the message it produced at the terminal.
>
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2014, at 8:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2014, at 3:51 PM, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> We?re clearly getting closer.
> >>
> >> I got through the jhbuild.
> >>
> >> So next thing I tried was to run configure within the gnucash-2.6.0
> directory.
> >>
> >> It got as far as checking for guile, and ?
> >>
> >> checking for guile-1.8 >= 1.8.5... yes
> >> checking GUILE_CFLAGS... -D_THREAD_SAFE
> -I/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/include
> -I/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/include
> >> checking GUILE_LIBS... -L/Users/victor/gnucash-stable/lib
> -L/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/lib
> -lguile -arch i386 -isysroot
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk
> -mmacosx-version-min=10.8 -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -lgmp -lm -lltdl
> >> checking for guile... no
> >> configure: error: guile required but not found
> >>
> >> So, I?m not sure what?s up with this.  It found a guile-1.8, but no
> guile?  Don?t know whether it?s an issue with configure or whether there?s
> still something missing.
> >
> > Any error in compiling a configure test will cause it to say that, so
> you have to look at config.log to find out what actually happened.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:05:15 -0500
> From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: john.gowing at jotrago.co.za
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: GnuCash Mail List Archive Search link broken?
> Message-ID: <sjm1tz9zo44.fsf at mocana.ihtfp.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Hi,
>
> No, it is not broken, per-se.  The software behind the search
> functionality was discontinued over four years ago, so when the server
> migrated a few weeks ago there was no way to migrate the search
> functionality.  This feature loss was announced as part of the migration
> announcement.
>
> Alas, the links to the search functions have not been removed.
>
> -derek
>
> John Gowing <john.gowing at jotrago.co.za> writes:
>
> >    I wanted to search the archives and followed this link {
> >    [1]https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user  } from the
> >    GNUCash List Home Page {
> >    [2]https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user  }
> >    I get a 404 error?
> >
> >    --
> >
>  _______________________________________________________________________
> >
> >         John Gowing
> >    [3]JoTraGo - Right First Time, Better Next
> >
> >                JoTraGo
> >    +27 (0)83-301-8731 - Mobile
> >    +27 (0)87-701-2630 - Office
> >    +27 (0)86-670-9882 - Fax
> >
> >       [4]www.jotrago.co.za
> >
> > References
> >
> >    1. https://lists.gnucash.org/search/?idxinfo=gnucash-user
> >    2. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> >    3. http://www.jotrago.co.za/
> >    4. http://www.jotrago.co.za/
> > _______________________________________________
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> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:11:38 +0100
> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Gnucash-htdocs Repository Regeneration Complete
> Message-ID: <4250258.szGgnePWlu at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> *Gnucash-htdocs Repository Regeneration Complete*
>
> The gnucash-htdocs repository has been successfully split into gnucash-
> htdocs and gnucash-htdocs-docs. The first is to be used by anyone that
> wants to alter the content of the website, the second will only be used
> by the documentation release manager to update our binary versions of
> the GnuCash guide and help manuals.
>
> As said before if you have a clone of the gnucash-htdocs directory from
> before February 13th you will have to reclone the new repository. If you
> still have commits that had not yet been pushed upstream you can follow
> these instructions[1] to move them over to the new repository.
>
> Also remember that the primary branch is "master" from now on. The
> "trunk" branch has completely been removed. Please don't push to that
> branch anymore.
>
>
> *About the Program*
>
> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
> Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and
> its first stable release was in 1998.
>
> --------
> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git#Conversion_Notice
>
>
>
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