[GNC] Dipping my toes into Scheme

[Adrien Monteleone]

There are some threads on issues building 3.8 on 18.04. I’m pretty sure the debs floating on the list are built for that case. I had some issues myself with a 3.7 and/or 3.8 build that involved conflicting dependencies. I’ve since moved on to 19.10 as a simpler solution.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 24, 2020 w13d84, at 10:03 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 24 Mar 2020, at 01:20, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This may indicate a Mac .app issue -- maybe it doesn't like being modified. 
>> For that matter it may be much safer to play on a Linux VM and downloading the sources instead.
>> Alternatively try the config-user.scm method on https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports
> 
> Problem resolved - I thought I’d dragged-and-dropped the new scheme file into a temporary directory, but it turned out that I’d created an alias in the latter, and left the original in situ.
> 
> Much chastened, I shall be more careful to keep my experiments separate from the real world!
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> 
> I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VM on my Mac, but the most recent version of GnuCash available through the Ubuntu Software Manager is 2.6.19.
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> Does anyone know if I have to compile from source to get 3.8?
> 
> (I’ll also have to work out how my drag-and-drop created an alias)
> 
> Michael