[GNC] Backporting Gnucash 3.7 to Ubuntu "Bionic" (or Mint, etc.)
Stephen M. Butler
kg7je at arrl.net
Fri Oct 25 12:33:08 EDT 2019
On 10/25/19 6:03 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 8:13 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net
> <mailto: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.
Since others appear able to provide the packages for Bionic, I'll handle
whichever platform I'm native on.
--Steve
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