[GNC] ninja check failing

[Md. Aminul Islam Khan]

Thanks David,

I have run the commands as you indicated and installed the Gnucash.

Regards,

aikhan

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 4:01 AM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Aminul,
>
> ninja check will build the libraries and then run a set of unit tests. The
> latter are mainly of use to the developers. It can be that a change to an
> underlying library may be causing a unit test to fail. Not sure in this
> case
> what it is that is causing the problem.  If you run
>
> ninja
> and then
> sudo ninja install
>
> ninja will not run the unit tests and should complete the build. The other
> alternative is to try building using make
>
> make check
> on my Linux Mint 19.3 (18.04 based) system builds the libraries and passes
> all tests (including the ones that failed under ninja except for
> 8 - test-date-utilities (Failed).
> Both 36 test-qof  and 59 test-gnc-numeric complete without failure.  It may
> also be that you have an outof date version of one of the libraries GnuCash
> uses installed.  Check the installed versions against the dependcies listed
> in the Release notes for 3.7or the lists on the WIki page
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies (dpkg -l | grep <string>  will
> list installed packages matching the name <string>. It is usually a good
> idea to use a generic part of a library name as the <string>.  e.g  for
> lthe
> curl library it is generally easier to search for curl rather than being
> too
> specific as libraries may have different names on different distros and
> sometimes include a version number.)
>
> It is likely this is a problem with the test code or an obscure part of the
> code as dates are rendered correctly on my system for everything I use
> regularly.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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