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

Sun Apr 8 14:31:06 EDT 2018

Oops, *my* bad. I released 3.0 from master instead of unstable. I’ve just done a reverse merge to fix it, and merged back so everything's in sync. Good thing you caught it before I shuffled the branches.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 8, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Steve Cohen <stevecoh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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