Fwd: Gnucash upgrade not working

[Kevin Rutherford]

(Sorry, forgot to CC the list.)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Rutherford <kevin at rutherford-software.com>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Gnucash upgrade not working
To: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>


Hi all,

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know that several have had problems with the version from getdeb
> intermittently hanging on exit on 14.04.  It is not difficult to build
> from source.  If you try this and anything in the wiki on building for
> 14.04 is not clear then come back and we will assist and I will update
> the wiki accordingly.

I tried the version from getdeb and it hangs on exit every time (on
Ubuntu 14.04).
So I've tried to build it myself, starting with the 2.6.3 tarball from girhub.
Here's where I got to:

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$ tar zxf gnucash-2.6.3.tar.gz
$ cd gnucash-2.6.3/
$ sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin/gnucash-2.6.3
--enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit
# Error complaining that configure does not exist.
# It's not clear from the wiki that autogen must always be run.
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin/gnucash-2.6.3
--enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit
# [...]
checking for ./src/swig-runtime.h... no
configure: error:

It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion, svk, git or bzr
but I cannot find swig-runtime.h.  Check your PATH and make sure
we can find gnc-scm-info in your PATH!

$ sudo apt-get install swig
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin/gnucash-2.6.3
--enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit
# [...]
checking for ./src/swig-runtime.h... no
configure: error:

It looks like you are NOT building from Subversion, svk, git or bzr
but I cannot find swig-runtime.h.  Check your PATH and make sure
we can find gnc-scm-info in your PATH!
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How can I get hold of swig-runtime.h or gnc-scm-info?
Many thanks,
Kevin