What is earliest version of Ubuntu for which building GnuCASH 3.0 is possible?

[Steve Cohen]

On 04/06/2018 02:22 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm newly retired and have some time ...
>> I have Ubuntu 14.0.4. I'm running GnuCash 2.6.1.
>>
>> But if I'm willing to build, is there any inherent reason why building
>> 3.0 will fail in this environment?  If not, I'll be willing to make the
>> effort.  I'd be glad for any information about bumps in the road I
>> should know about in advance.
>>
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> We're using 14.04 for one of the CI builds, so you shouldn't have any trouble. You might want to examine 
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/unstable/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-docker
> to copy the packages you need to install.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
Thank you John.  I'm noticing that the README file (from within the 3.0
tarball) is for version 2.6.x.  Are more recent build instructions
available elsewhere?