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

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:13 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> On 10/24/19 12:39 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> > 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.
>

My apologies. I can confirm, the eoan package doesn't build that way. I had
never tried building for Disco. Weird.

Fortunately (?) now that Ubuntu Eoan 19.10 is out there should be little
reason to build for Disco 19.04.

I have tried a couple of things but cannot work any more on it at the
moment. If you want to discuss it further, maybe we ought to move this
discussion back to the devel list.