[GNC] Anyone have a current gnc-vcs-info.h they can post here?

[Derek Atkins]

Don't use github tarballs.
We would turn them off if they would let us!
Either use an official release tarball or fit clone.

-derek
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On October 2, 2020 7:27:09 AM B Wooster <bwooster47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The githib .zip archive fails to build for what I think is a known issue -
> tarballs, cmake, make does not work for gnucash build.
>
> Can someone reply to this message with a currently valid gnc-vcs-info.h? I
> hacked itup, but it fails in the version-info2env step.
>
>  Manually hacked up gnc-vcs-info.h like this, but it will fail later in
> version-info2env step:
> #define GNC_VCS_REV "4.20"
> #define GNC_VCS_REV_DATE "11"
> #define GNC_VCS_REV_YEAR "2020"
> #define GNC_VCS_REV_Y_M "2020-10"
>
> I got around it by using make -i, and it built gnucash, so somewhat OK for
> now. Just experimenting right now.
>
> clean make error:
> ...
> Scanning dependencies of target gnc-vcs-info
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> '.../gnucash-maint/libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-vcs-info.h', needed by
> 'libgnucash/core-utils/CMakeFiles/gnc-vcs-info'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5180:
> libgnucash/core-utils/CMakeFiles/gnc-vcs-info.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
>
>
> [not a member of devel group so hoping someone from gnucash-user can reply!
> thanks!]
>
> Debian system, gnucash-maint zip archive 2020-Oct-1:
>
> make -i
> ...
> CMake Error at .../gnucash-maint/cmake/version-info2env.cmake:10 (list):
>  list index: 1 out of range (-1, 0)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>  .../gnucash-maint/cmake/configure-manpage.cmake:14 (versioninfo2env)
>
>
> [ 50%] Built target gnucash-cli-manpage
> [ 50%] Generating gnucash.1
> CMake Error at .../gnucash-maint/cmake/version-info2env.cmake:10 (list):
>  list index: 1 out of range (-1, 0)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>  .../gnucash-maint/cmake/configure-manpage.cmake:14 (versioninfo2env)
>
>
> [ 50%] Built target gnucash-manpage
> ...
> [ 68%] Built target gnucash-cli
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target '.../gnucash-maint/gnucash/gnome/
> gnucash.appdata.xml.in', needed by 'gnucash/gnome/gnucash.appdata.xml'.
> Stop.
> [ 68%] Built target gnucash-appdata
> [ 68%] Generating gnucash.desktop
> CMake Error at .../gnucash-maint/cmake/version-info2env.cmake:10 (list):
>  list index: 1 out of range (-1, 0)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>  .../gnucash-maint/cmake/configure-gnucash-desktop.cmake:15
> (versioninfo2env)
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