[GNC] Gnucash 3.0 Build error

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 10 april 2018 16:45:39 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > On Apr 10, 2018, at 7:03 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:> 
> > Op donderdag 5 april 2018 23:04:39 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> >>> On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:34 PM, DaveC49 <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> After following the build instructions
> >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu
> >>> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Ubuntu>
> >>> I have checked glib-2.0 and libglib2.0 are installed
> >>> 
> >>> I received the following errors when building using cmake (v 3.5.1) on
> >>> Linux MInt 18.3 :
> >>> 
> >>> /$ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/bin/gnucash-cmake -D
> >>> WITH_AQBANKING=OFF -D WITH_OFX=ON ../gnucash
> >>> 
> >>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:5 (file):
> >>> file problem creating directory: /glib-2.0/schemas
> >>> 
> >>> -- Performing Test have_mod_mask
> >>> -- Performing Test have_mod_mask - Failed
> >>> 
> >>> CMake Error at gnome/CMakeLists.txt:59 (gnc_add_swig_guile_command):
> >>> Unknown CMake command "gnc_add_swig_guile_command".
> >>> 
> >>> CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
> >>> No cmake_minimum_required command is present.  A line of code such as
> >>> 
> >>>   cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)
> >>> 
> >>> should be added at the top of the file.  The version specified may be
> >>> 
> >>> lower
> >>> 
> >>> if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project.  For more
> >>> information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
> >>> 
> >>> This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
> >>> 
> >>> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> >>> See also
> >>> "/home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput
> >>> .l
> >>> og". See also
> >>> "/home/david/Applications/gnucash-3.0/build-cmake/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.
> >>> lo
> >>> g"./
> >>> 
> >>> Any ideas?
> >> 
> >> Rob Gowin saw your mistake and pointed it out in gnucash-devel, a better
> >> place to discuss build problems:
> >> 
> >> The error is "cmake <options> ../gnucash". You want just "cmake <options>
> >> .." to get the root CMakeLists.txt instead of the CMakeLists.txt in the
> >> "gnucash" subdirectory.
> >> 
> >> He recommends creating your build directory completely outside of the
> >> source tree as a way to avoid making this mistake.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> > 
> > I'm beginning to think it was a bad idea to name the directory for the gui
> > part "gnucash" as well. It seems to lead to all kinds of confusion in
> > build
> > descriptions.
> 
> Yeah, though it’s pretty standard practice.
> 
> Part of the problem was that the README was a bit confusing. I expanded it
> with more details about what’s going on with the command and the
> variations, and finished up with recommending that one not pass a relative
> path to cmake.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

That's better indeed. I came to this thread after reading the gnucash Building 
wiki page. It will need the same treatment. For example the ubuntu specific 
instructions are unclear on where to create the build directory and if you 
follow the instructions literally it will be inside the source tree. Yet the 
cmake command example assumes it to be next to the source tree.

Geert