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

[Colin Law]

How are you running it?  Perhaps it is running the old version.  Run
it by explicilty specifing the the full path the the executable from
the terminal, something like
/usr/local/bin/gnucash
or wherever you installed it.  If still no joy check the timestamp on
the file you are running and make sure it matches when you built it.

Colin

On 8 April 2018 at 15:07, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>
>> 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?
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