[GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 10/24/19 12:39 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:49 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
> <mailto:kg7je at arrl.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/18/19 8:47 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>     > <<snip>>
>
>     > 3) Get the latest Ubuntu package.
>     >
>     >   $ dget
>     >
>     http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnucash/gnucash_3.7-1ubuntu1.dsc
>     I have cloned the git repository and have checked out 3.7 into the
>     gnucash folder.
>     > <<snip>>
>
>
> This is why you cannot build it -- the version of GnuCash supplied in
> the Ubuntu eoan repository INCLUDES patches from John Ralls that makes
> it build more easily. If you check out 3.7 from git you do not get the
> patches. There MAY be a git tag that includes the "backported" patches
> (they will be included in the next release) but I don't know what that
> tag might be.
>
It builds clean on the native Disco box -- just not in schroot for
disco-amd64.

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