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

[Steve Cohen]

My bad, I forgot what I did!  I didn't build from the tarball.  I built
what I got from doing

	git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

which somehow brought down the unstable branch.

Now I actually built from the tarball and got 3.0.  Sorry for this noob
error.


On 04/08/2018 10:53 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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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