Gnucash upgrade not working

[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Unfortunately you assume incorrectly.  It is not the same, and the
GnuCash build system does care about that difference.  So yes, one must
either use an official tarball or git clone the repo.

> Colin

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-derek

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