[GNC] Trouble building Gnucash 4.8

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

See this post
https://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-user@gnucash.org/msg27927.html

there is a script problem that requires a patch in 4.8.  will be fixed in 4.9

David Cousens

On Mon, 2021-12-20 at 12:58 -0500, M wrote:
> 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:
> 
> ------
> [ 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
> 
> --------------
> 
> 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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