GnuCash 2.6.4 released (Mac)

[John Ralls]

On Sep 29, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 Sep 2014, at 21:22, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>> 
>>> [ Please avoid cross posting. I have removed all mailing lists except 
>>> for gnucash-user from this reply. Please do the same in your replies. ]
>>> 
>>> On Monday 29 September 2014 12:44:18 David Gillam wrote:
>>>> Results on OSX 10.9.5:
>>>> 
>>>> 2.6.3 = GOOD
>>>> 2.6.4-1 = CRASH
>>>> 2.6.4-2 = REALLY slow startup on first round, but eventually opened
>>>> and appeared ok, but after a clean stop it now refuses to start up
>>>> again--get opening logo screen, then about 20 seconds later, it just
>>>> aborts.
>>>> 
>>> The REALLY slow start is due to a new feature in guile 2. It precompiles 
>>> the scheme code the first time it runs. This takes a lot of time.
>>> 
>>> It does not explain why it fails to load completely the second time 
>>> though.
>>> 
>> 
>> I’ve fixed it in the Intel build by getting the precompiled guile infrastructure into the bundle and adding its location to GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH. That’s now on SF as Gnucash-Intel-2.6.4-3.dmg.
> 
> I’ve just downloaded this from SF. The DMG can be mounted, but if I ran the Gnucash App within I’m told that '“Gnucash.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. you should eject the disk image.’

Sigh. Seems that even with the precompiled images Guile changes something, invalidating the signature. Just like Python. I've uploaded a new dmg, 2.6.4-4, with a re-signed Gnucash.app, and checked it with my laptop. Try that.

I've also got the PPC dmg updated, to 2.6.4-3. 

Regards,
John Ralls