[GNC] Compiling 2.6.12

[Paul Schwartz]

apt complains that it can't find libglib-2.0-dev. Did you mean
glib-2.0-dev? That was installed.
Going to try a reboot just in case.

Paul

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 1:11 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> First -- be sure to cc the user group (gnucash-user at gnucash.org) so that
> others can jump in and help.
>
> Second -- I presume you have looked at this page
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04
>   It has the entire list for building on 18.04.  I know it says 16.04
> but it also works for 18.04
>
> Third -- you are aware that 2.6.19 is available for 18.04 from the
> packaged libraries.  That would have several bug fixes.  In addition,
> you could pull down 2.6.21 (as Geert suggested) and get even more fixes.
>
>    <<and then, why not jump to 3.2--some fix level?  I pulled from the
> git library a couple weeks back to get some fixes for 3.2 and am happy.
> Sounds like some more fixes were added in the last few days>>
>
>
>
> On 08/31/2018 11:07 AM, Paul Schwartz wrote:O
> > Very long message
> > Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
> > you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc' to the
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'glib-2.0' found
> > Package gio-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
> > you should add the directory containing `gio-2.0.pc' to the
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gio-2.0' found
> > Package gthread-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gthread-2.0.pc' to
> > the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gthread-2.0'
> > found Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc' to
> > the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gobject-2.0'
> > found Package gmodule-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gmodule-2.0.pc' to
> > the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gmodule-2.0' found
> > configure: error: Library requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.28 gio-2.0 >=
> > 2.25 gthread-2.0 gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0) not met; consider adjusting
> > the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
> > nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> >
> > When you installed glib did you remove anything?
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> There was something funky on my machine and I did have to clean up some
> items.
> I searched my sent folder and found that gtest and gmock on my system
> were very old.
> You may need to remove them and then forcibly remove the two folders
> /usr/src/gtest and /usr/src/gmock and then add them back:
>
> sudo apt-get install googletest
> sudo apt-get install googlemock
> sudo apt-get install libgtest-dev
>
>
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:48 AM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
> > <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 08/31/2018 10:36 AM, Paul Schwartz wrote:
> >     > I have been trying to compile 2.6.12 on Ubuntu 18.04. I have not
> >     been able
> >     > to get past the recognition of glib-2.0 in configure. I have
> >     installed
> >     > glib-2.0 and glib-2.0-dev with apt. I have tried setting
> >     PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> >     > to /usr/share before running
> >     conhttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04figure. Nothing
> >     seems to work. Some
> >     > suggestions would be appreciated.
> >     >
> >     > Paul
> >     >
> >     What error messages do you get?  I was compiling 3.1 and 3.2 on
> Ubuntu
> >     18.04 and had to load the generic glib and let 18.04 figure out which
> >     one to install.
> >
> >
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