[GNC] piecharts/linecharts turned blank in reports after upgrade

[Christopher Lam]

Try exporting the report to HTML and view source to determine where it's
trying to find chartjs sources.

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 9:06 am Dong Lin via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>
> I created a fresh VM using ubuntu 21.04, minimal install with no gnucash
> installed.
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
> $ git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git
> $ cd gnucash
> $ git reset --hard 4.6
> $ mkdir ../build && cd ../build
> $ cmake ../gnucash
> $ make -j8
> $ ./bin/gnucash
>
> the resulting gnucash produced blank charts.  tables are visible when
> enabled.
>
>
> > No, that switches only the libgnc*.so libs in lib/gnucash. There are
> > others in lib/.
> >
> > You cannot build GnuCash with an installed GnuCash. You must `sudo
> apt-get
> > remove gnucash` then `rm -rf *` your build directory and re-run cmake &&
> > ninja.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 20, 2021, at 9:16 PM, Dong Lin <c54e-gnucash at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> vm-ubuntu-1:~/src/build-gnucash$ mv lib lib-local-build
> >> vm-ubuntu-1:~/src/build-gnucash$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash
> >> lib
> >>
> >> this only switches the libgnc-*.so libs only.  all other libs continue
> >> to
> >> point to /usr/lib.
> >>
> >> vm-ubuntu-1:~/src/build-gnucash$ ./bin/gnucash
> >> ./bin/gnucash: symbol lookup error: ./bin/gnucash: undefined symbol:
> >> gnc_run_report_with_error_handling
> >>
> >>
> >>> Switched how? What libwebkit2gtk.so and libjavascriptcoregtk.so was
> >>> libgnc-html.so linked to if not the ones in /usr/lib?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> John Ralls
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 20, 2021, at 7:55 PM, Dong Lin <c54e-gnucash at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On a freshly installed Ubuntu 21.04 VM with apt installed GNC 4.4. the
> >>>> apt
> >>>> installed GNC runs fine with charts visible.
> >>>>
> >>>> But locally built GNC (tip of the latest maint branch) has the same
> >>>> issue.
> >>>> I tried switching the libs in build_dir to point to
> >>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gnucash,  but the local gnucash encountered
> >>>> an
> >>>> undefined symbol gnc_run_report_with_error_handling and couldn't
> >>>> start.
> >>>>
> >>>> apt removed the system gnucash, purged ~/.cache. reran the local gnc,
> >>>> same
> >>>> problem, blank charts.
> >>>> only the table is visible.
> >>>>
> >>>> the build environment was prepared with apt-get build-dep gnucash as
> >>>> instructed.
> >>>>
> >
>
>
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