[GNC] Gnc 4.1 Make Fail - MX-LINUX (Debian Buster)

[Mike Commissaris]

I'm been playing with MX-LINUX (Debian Buster Based) because it has a
splendid live USB system. Thanks to John's comments I've learned about
holding (and a little about pinning) a package.

I did a new install. But this time installed the version 63 icu-devtools
and libicu-dev packages, "held" them with Apt, and succeeded with the
build. So far it seems to be working. I will look into Debian Bullseye. I
started learning with Linux Mint, but now looking for something a little
more technical.

Thanks all for the comments, and especially to the Devs.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 7:02 PM Andrew Clark <ajfclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd guess from the subject they're running Debian Buster (10), which
> unfortunately I don't have installed anywhere useful at the moment.
>
> I'm running Debian Bullseye (11) and did not have any issues building 4.1
> from source, so perhaps upgrading to that is an option?
>
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 04:10, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
>>
>> If you don't know about pinning you didn't do it, and I suppose you
>> didn't build boost yourself either. That suggests that the issue is with
>> your distro, so go to their support channel and raise the issue with them.
>>
>> You haven't said what distro you're using so we can't really help you
>> with the details of rolling back ICU to version 63; another reason for
>> ensuring that you copy the list is that there are others there who know
>> more than I do about the details of managing any of them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>> > On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:30 AM, Mike Commissaris <
>> commissaris.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks John
>> > I am quite new to linux but have a feel for what you are saying. I saw
>> hints of this conflict while working on this the last couple of days. ICU
>> and boost are new unexplored areas. Is there a workaround for this? Can you
>> point me to info for pinning to ICU63?
>> > Thank you so much.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:55 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Sep 3, 2020, at 7:45 PM, Mike Commissaris <
>> commissaris.mike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Trying to build 4.1 but cannot finish. Hope someone can help. All
>> > > dependencies seem to be met. Hope someone can help.
>> >
>> > [SNIP]
>> >
>> > >
>> > > gnucash/CMakeFiles/gnucash.dir/gnucash-gresources.c.o
>> > > [ 72%] Linking CXX executable ../bin/gnucash
>> > > /usr/bin/ld: warning: libicudata.so.63, needed by
>> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_regex.so, may conflict with
>> > > libicudata.so.67
>> > > /usr/bin/ld: warning: libicui18n.so.63, needed by
>> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_regex.so, may conflict with
>> > > libicui18n.so.67
>> > > /usr/bin/ld: warning: libicuuc.so.63, needed by
>> > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_regex.so, may conflict with
>> > > libicuuc.so.67
>> > > /usr/bin/ld: ../lib/gnucash/libgnc-csv-import.so: undefined reference
>> to
>> > >
>> `boost::re_detail_106700::icu_regex_traits_implementation::do_transform(int
>> > > const*, int const*, icu_67::Collator const*) const'
>> > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > > make[2]: *** [gnucash/CMakeFiles/gnucash.dir/build.make:183:
>> bin/gnucash]
>> > > Error 1
>> > > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:6942:
>> > > gnucash/CMakeFiles/gnucash.dir/all] Error 2
>> > > make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2
>> > >
>> >
>> > ICU versions their libraries so that if you've compiled something with
>> ICUX you can't later link it with ICUY. If you built Boost yourself you
>> just need to clean and rebuild it so that it links with the new version of
>> ICU. If not first make sure that you didn't pin the boost version; if you
>> did either remove the pin or roll ICU back to ICU63 and  pin it too. If not
>> then the Boost packager for your distro needs a kick to get a recompiled
>> package linked with the right ICU version.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mike
>>
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>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew.
>


-- 
Mike