Gnucash upgrade not working

[Colin Law]

On 15 May 2014 15:19, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2014 15:13:25 Colin Law wrote:
>> Hi Kevin
>>
>> Did you realise you had replied to me personally, on this list you
>> have to use Reply All or Reply List to send it to the list.  I am
>> copying it to the list.
>>
>> On 15 May 2014 14:46, Kevin Rutherford <kevin at rutherford-software.com>
> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> The wiki instructions assume you build it from the tar from the
>> gnucash website rather than github, though that is not explicitly
>> stated there.  That should not be a major problem though.
>>
> I actually think that is the real problem here. Github's tarballs are
> the raw sources packed up in a tarball. The tarballs available via the
> website are created via the gnucash build system and this adds files
> that are required for building from a tarball that are not in the raw
> sources.

OK, I assumed that the tar from github would be the same as checking
out the version from git, so the same technique to build as used from
a cloned repo should work.  If that is not the case then, as you say,
then one must either clone the repo or download the tar from the
gnucash site.

Colin