[GNC] Compile of 3.2 fails

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 16:18:36 EDT 2018


On 4 August 2018 at 21:09, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Do
>   sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/gnucash
>

be very careful when you do this, for example if you accidentally put a
space after the first / then you would delete the whole file system.  When
I have to do such things I usually do
cd /usr/local/lib/gnucash
then double check I am in the right directory, then
sudo rm -rf .

Colin



>   sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libgnc*
> clean your build directory and try again.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Aug 4, 2018, at 9:21 AM, Michael via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > Geert, Thanks for the reply.  type gnucash gives /usr/local/bin/gnucash,
> but that seems to be an old 2.6.21 install that no longer works.  There is
> a working 2.6.21 in a $HOME/build-folder, but it doesn't show up.
> >
> > I cleared the guile ccache with no improvement.
> >
> > Looks like I should think about this some more and probably do a fresh
> install of Mint.  For now I can use 2.6.21.  Thanks, Mike
> >
> >
> > On 08/04/2018 08:40 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >> The symbol gnc-build-userdata-path is defined in libgnc-core-utils.so
> or it
> >> should be. It is a new symbol for gnucash 3.x.
> >>
> >> Is the install of gnucash 2.6 installed in /usr or /usr/local ? Then
> your
> >> build may be picking up the wrong libgnc-core-utils.so.
> >>
> >> What do you get when you enter
> >> type gnucash
> >> on a terminal ?
> >>
> >> Do you have amended the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for your
> user
> >> account (or systemwide) ?
> >>
> >> Another thing to try is to clear guile's local build cache in
> >> $HOME/.cache/guile/ccache
> >> There may still be precompiled files in there from a previous build
> though
> >> it's less likely this matters here.
> >>
> >> Geert
> >>
> >> GeertOp vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 23:36:17 CEST schreef Michael:
> >>> Geert, You may be right.  Over a few years, I have built or installed
> >>> several 2.6.x versions, including 2.6.21 which is still on the machine.
> >>> It may be that I am looking at a clean install. I don't know how I
> would
> >>> get rid of all the old installs and associated files.  A more complete
> >>> log file is attached.  Mike
> >>>
> >>> On 08/03/2018 06:50 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> >>>> Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 01:15:31 CEST schreef Michael via
> gnucash-user:
> >>>>> I am trying to build gnucash-3.2 on Linux Mint just upgraded to 19.
> >>>>> cmake was successful.  make fails at about 30%.  Generating
> >>>>> ../../lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/core-utils.go.  recipe for
> >>>>> target failed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I thought I had it made when cmake worked.  Any ideas?  Mike
> >>>> Unfortunately you have only included the very last line of the build
> >>>> error.
> >>>> The more useful details are in the lines above.
> >>>>
> >>>> My first guess would be that you still have gnucash 2.6.x installed on
> >>>> your
> >>>> system. During build gnucash will try to link against other built
> files.
> >>>> However if these files are also present from an installed gnucash it
> looks
> >>>> like these are found first. And in this case that could fail.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you uninstall gnucash 2.6.x and restart the build ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Geert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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