[GNC] Newest version for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[brad]

Don't you need to be in $SOURCEDIR for the git commands?


On 11/19/21 12:10 AM, david whiting wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> Once you have the sources you can use git to checkout any previous
> version you want. To see the tagged versions, in a terminal type:
>
> git tag
>
> The last 10 lines show:
>
> 4.2-post-string-freeze
> 4.3
> 4.3-string-freeze
> 4.4
> 4.5
> 4.6
> 4.7
> 4.8
> 4.8a
> gnucash-1-9-0
>
> So, if you want version 4.8a, you can do:
>
> git checkout -b 4.8a 4.8a
>
> This will checkout the version tagged 4.8a, and create a new branch
> called 4.8a. Once you have that, you can just change to the build
> directory and run the cmake and make commands. I have selected 4.8a,
> if you want version 4.8 instead, just use 4.8 instead of 4.8a in the
> git checkout. Note, once you have the source code, you don't need to
> run the whole script again to get a new version. When there is a new
> release, e.g. 4.9 or 5.0, or 5.1, or whatever, you can just:
>
> git checkout maint
> git pull
>
> to get the latest commits, then:
>
> git checkout -b 5.0 5.0
>
> (for example) to get that version.
>
> Here is the script again, with the git checkout command added (near the end):
>
> ==== build-gnucash.sh  ====
>
> ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
> SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
> BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
>
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt upgrade
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> ## This is one long line
> sudo apt install git make cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev
> libxslt1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev gettext swig guile-3.0-dev
> libofx-dev xsltproc libboost-all-dev libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-sqlite3
> libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev
> gwenhywfar-tools libgwengui-gtk3-dev
>
> # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test |
> Google Test]] already.
> sudo apt install libgtest-dev                # >=1.7.0
> sudo apt install google-mock                 # 1.8.0 installs
> googlemock in a subdirectory of gtest
>
> mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
> mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
>
> ## Clone gnucash source from git, if it is not already there
> [ ! -d $SOURCEDIR/gnucash ] && git clone
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
>
> ## Checkout version 4.8a
> git checkout -b 4.8a 4.8a
>
> cd $BUILDDIR
> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/gnucash $SOURCEDIR
>
> make
>
> ==== end of script ====
>
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 22:07, brad <bradhaack at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> David,  Will your script build the latest stable release?  If not what
>> do I change to do that?
>>
>> On 10/2/21 11:48 AM, david whiting wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 07:11, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> I would settle for a copy of "Building the Newest Version of GNC for
>>>> Dummies Course" book.
>>> Others have shown you that you can use flatpak to get the latest
>>> version, but if you do want to build from source I have found that the
>>> following works on Ubuntu 20.04. I have also attached it as a script.
>>> This clones the source from git and by default builds the maintenance
>>> version. The versions are tagged, so you can use git to checkout a
>>> different version and build that if you want, e.g. you could build 4.8
>>> rather than maint.
>>>
>>> ==== build-gnucash.sh  ====
>>>
>>> ## Change this if you want to build it somewhere else.
>>> SOURCEDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/source"
>>> BUILDDIR="$HOME/Documents/gnucash/build"
>>>
>>> sudo apt update
>>> sudo apt upgrade
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install build-essential
>>> ## This is one long line
>>> sudo apt install git make cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev
>>> libxslt1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev gettext swig guile-3.0-dev
>>> libofx-dev xsltproc libboost-all-dev libdbi1 libdbi-dev libdbd-sqlite3
>>> libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-dev
>>> gwenhywfar-tools libgwengui-gtk3-dev
>>>
>>> # Only use the next 2 lines if you have not installed [[Google_Test |
>>> Google Test]] already.
>>> sudo apt install libgtest-dev                # >=1.7.0
>>> sudo apt install google-mock                 # 1.8.0 installs
>>> googlemock in a subdirectory of gtest
>>>
>>> mkdir -p $SOURCEDIR
>>> mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
>>>
>>> ## Clone gnucash source from git, if it is not already there
>>> [ ! -d $SOURCEDIR/gnucash ] && git clone
>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git $SOURCEDIR
>>>
>>> cd $BUILDDIR
>>> cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/gnucash $SOURCEDIR
>>>
>>> make
>>>
>>> ==== end of script ====
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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