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

Sun Jul 25 13:16:09 EDT 2021

Thanks for the instructions Christoper. The src file is missing in the
html export.

$ grep script gnc-report.html
</style></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><script language="javascript"
type="text/javascript" src="file:///"></script>
<script id='script-chart173'>
</script><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"
border="0"><thead><tr><th>Date</th>

Did the same thing for my 3.x builds, they all have these:

</style></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><script language="javascript"
type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jquery.jqplot.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.barRenderer.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.cursor.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.categoryAxisRenderer.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.highlighter.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.canvasTextRenderer.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="file:////home/build3-3.11/share/gnucash/jqplot/jqplot.canvasAxisTickRenderer.js"></script>
<script id="source">
</script><table cellspacing="0" border="0"
cellpadding="4"><thead><tr><th>Date</th>

> 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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