Gnucash upgrade not working

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 15 May 2014 15:23:33 Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
> 
>From the error Kevin gets it seems that the git tarballs are not real 
git repositories. At least configure can't recognize it as one. Hence my 
suggestion to set BUILDING_FROM_SCM.

I have quickly scanned the gnucash github repository. I can't even find 
how to download a tarball to check this myself...

Geert