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

Sun Apr 8 18:58:38 EDT 2018

Ok, I suppose.  I would have EXPECTED a release to be built from the
master branch.  I don't understand why

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

is tied to the unstable branch - but if it is, then it makes sense that
you would want to reverse merge it down. Why do you do it that way?

On 04/08/2018 01:31 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 	
>>
>> 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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