[GNC] Build error ver 3.7 on mint 19.2

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 2:16 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op vrijdag 18 oktober 2019 23:26:51 CEST schreef David Cousens:
> > Tommy,
> >
> > Not sure what the differences between Linux Mint 19.2 (Ubuntu 18.04
> based)
> > and Ubuntu 18.04 18.10 and 19.10 are that cause problems building
> directly
> > from the sources but as your procedure seems considerably different from
> > what is on the wiki you might want to add it to the wiki build
> instructions
> > even though it is more related to producing the debian package for
> > installation than a direct build of GnuCash from the tarball. Let me
> know if
> > you don't have wiki edit privileges and I will include it there as well.
> >
> > David
>
> If you don't mind I'd like to keep instructions for building gnucash
> directly
> separate from building a debian gnucash package. I'm fine with having both
> somewhere in the wiki, but to me building gnucash and building a package
> are
> different things (which happen to have some overlap). In theory packaging
> is
> an additional step after building though in practice packaging toolchains
> often embed a building step.
>
> Geert
>

I agree; packaging is separate from building, and it shouldn't be
intermingled with the building information on the wiki.

However a Debian package has to build successfully from source on several
supported architectures, so the building and packaging issues are
interrelated.

Lots of folks rely on the Debian package, including me. So my goal has been
to learn enough about Debian packaging to present the process on the wiki
so more volunteers might be available to help produce each next Debian
package. Unfortunately GnuCash seems notably challenging to build, and the
Debian package increases the complexity greatly.




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