[GNC] Compile of 3.2 fails

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 08/03/2018 11:12 AM, Michael via gnucash-user wrote:
> Thanks for the reply David,
>
> I am building in ~/build-32.  Extracted tar file is in
> ~/Downloads/Applications/gnucash-3.2.
>
> Command (from build-32) is 'cmake
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/build-32 -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF
> ../Downloads/Applications/gnucash-3.2'. Then make (with '>& log.txt'
> added).
>


Is this where you want the final installation to live?  I let mine
default to the usual system folders.  I also wonder if you want the
final install in the same folder to which cmake does the compile (which
would be the current working directory which you identified as
$HOME/build-32.

Based on the log it is having trouble with -- [ 30%] Generating
../../lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/core-utils.go
There is this interesting line -- ice-9/boot-9.scm:109:20: Undefined
variable: gnc-build-userdata-path

So if you go up two levels from $HOME/build-32 should take you to the
/home folder.  Do you have a lib directory there?

I have mine in a different folder ($HOME/Projects/GnuCash/gnucash-3.2
and I made a folder $HOME/Projects/GnuCash/mybuild
and then did these commands:

cd mybuild
cmake ../gnucash-3.2
make
sudo make install


So, I think it wants you to have an empty folder at the same level as $HOME/Downloads/Applications/gnucash-32 (say $HOME/Downloads/Applications/Build-GC-3.2) and be sitting in that folder when you issue 'cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/build-32 -DWITH_AQBANKING=OFF ../gnucash-3.2'
Then staying there issue the 'make >& log.txt'
then 'make install'
(sudo not needed as you are doing it in your own work space).

--Steve



> Output of log.txt is attached.
>
> I have built on a similar machine, so I believe you are right that
> something in the over dependencies is wrong although I followed the
> same instructions from the wiki.  Mike
>
>
> On 08/03/2018 04:47 AM, David Cousens wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> It may be possible that there is a dependency that cmake doesn't check
>> for that may be missing. There would normally be an error message in
>> the output somewhere just before the "recipe for target failed"
>> message. If when you run make you use
>> make >& log.txt
>> you can dump the make output to a logfile and search it with the text
>> editor (xed). The other alternative is to edit the preferences for the
>> terminal and make sure the limit scrolllback checkbox is not set. You
>> can copy terminal output by selecting it, right click and copy or use
>> CTRL-Shift-C.
>>
>> If you can post the make output either directly (if not too long) or
>> use a pastebin if it is very long, we should be able to help sort the
>> problem. If you are using Nabble you can attach files or attach then to
>> the email.
>>
>> It would also help if you post the commands you used to setup the build
>> directory and the cmake command you used as the cmake command syntax is
>> very sensitive to the relative positioning of the source and build
>> directories.
>>
>> David Cousens

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