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

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04/06/2018 02:22 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> 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?

The best current build instructions are cmake/README_CMAKE.txt.

Regards,
John Ralls