[GNC] Trouble building Gnucash 4.8

M M_Stagl at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 20 12:58:01 EST 2021


I'm having an issue building gnucash, but I am not an expert and am sure 
I am doing something wrong!

Build environment - Fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM
Build Dependencies - Installed dependencies per 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installing_Dependencies

Using the instructions at 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux, and following the Build 
using Cmake and Make instructions.

I can successfully run cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt ../gnucash-4.8

However, when I run make, I get an error.  A copy-and-paste of my screen 
at the failure point is below:

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[ 97%] Generating ../../share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
[ 98%] Built target compiled-schemas
Scanning dependencies of target migratable-prefs
[ 98%] Generating ../../share/gnucash/migratable-prefs.xml
CMake Error: cmake version 3.16.3
Usage: /usr/bin/cmake -E <command> [arguments...]
Available commands:
   capabilities              - Report capabilities built into cmake in 
JSON format
   chdir dir cmd [args...]   - run command in a given directory
   compare_files [--ignore-eol] file1 file2
                               - check if file1 is same as file2
   copy <file>... destination  - copy files to destination (either file 
or directory)
   copy_directory <dir>... destination   - copy content of <dir>... 
directories to 'destination' directory
   copy_if_different <file>... destination  - copy files if it has changed
   echo [<string>...]        - displays arguments as text
   echo_append [<string>...] - displays arguments as text but no new line
   env [--unset=NAME]... [NAME=VALUE]... COMMAND [ARG]...
                             - run command in a modified environment
   environment               - display the current environment
   make_directory <dir>...   - create parent and <dir> directories
   md5sum <file>...          - create MD5 checksum of files
   sha1sum <file>...         - create SHA1 checksum of files
   sha224sum <file>...       - create SHA224 checksum of files
   sha256sum <file>...       - create SHA256 checksum of files
   sha384sum <file>...       - create SHA384 checksum of files
   sha512sum <file>...       - create SHA512 checksum of files
   remove [-f] <file>...     - remove the file(s), use -f to force it
   remove_directory <dir>... - remove directories and their contents
   rename oldname newname    - rename a file or directory (on one volume)
   server                    - start cmake in server mode
   sleep <number>...         - sleep for given number of seconds
   tar [cxt][vf][zjJ] file.tar [file/dir1 file/dir2 ...]
                             - create or extract a tar or zip archive
   time command [args...]    - run command and display elapsed time
   touch <file>...           - touch a <file>.
   touch_nocreate <file>...  - touch a <file> but do not create it.
   create_symlink old new    - create a symbolic link new -> old
   true                      - do nothing with an exit code of 0
   false                     - do nothing with an exit code of 1

make[2]: *** 
[gnucash/gschemas/CMakeFiles/migratable-prefs.dir/build.make:61: 
share/gnucash/migratable-prefs.xml] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'share/gnucash/migratable-prefs.xml'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:11923: 
gnucash/gschemas/CMakeFiles/migratable-prefs.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:163: all] Error 2

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Does the make command produce any error logs I can troubleshoot?  I see 
logs for Cmake, but nothing for Make.  I tried deleting the build 
directory and running Cmake again with the flags to build without SQL, 
AQBANKING, and OFX just to eliminate as much source of possible error as 
I could, but I got the same results when running make.

Any ideas how I can go about troubleshooting this?

Thanks in advance!

Mike


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