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

[Steve Cohen]

On 04/07/2018 09:50 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/07/2018 09:38 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>>
>>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 8:06 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> On 04/06/2018 02:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com
>>>>>> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> <mailto: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
>>>>>>>> <mailto:stevecoh2 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> <mailto: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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>> OK, I built it.  It seems to run, look nice, in general, it seems to
>> work.  Haven't given it any difficult test yet.  But, why does the
>> Help->About screen say it's version 2.7.8, when I built from the 3.0
>> tarball?
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> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
> 
> Hmm, it shouldn’t say that. The MacOS build that should be from the same
> tarball says 3.0 on 
> Help->About. Did you get the tarball from SourceForge or Github?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
I got the tarball from sourceforge: gnucash-3.0.tar.gz: 19,010,065 bytes
from
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz.

The link to
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz
downloads a file of the same exact size.

So I'm certainly stumped.

What file in the package contains/produces the version number?