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

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 8:06 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 04/06/2018 02:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> 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 <mailto: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.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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 <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
>> 
>> 
> Thanks!
> After a few hours of false starts, I managed to build GnuCash 3.0 on my
> Ubuntu 14.0.4 system.
> 
> I had to use this command line:
> 
> cmake -D ALLOW_OLD_GETTEXT=ON -D GTEST_ROOT=~/src/gtest/googletest -D
> GMOCK_ROOT=~/src/gtest/googlemock ~/src/gnucash
> 
> The ALLOW_OLD_GETTEXT was necessary because I only had an earlier
> version of gettext and could find no way to install the required version
> without compiling it too and I didn't want to enter that path.  What
> negative features will result from doing this, and is it avoidable under
> this environment?
> 
> I haven't tried installing it yet.  Will it be necessary to uninstall
> the old one first, and what happens to my datafiles if I do that.  In
> other words, what's the upgrade path here?

For your personal use, no effect at all. It just means that some types of files don’t have their translatable strings extracted into the message catalog. That affects only translators working from git instead of a tarball.

Regards,
John Ralls