[GNC] Quotes issue

[john]

> On Apr 18, 2022, at 6:30 PM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 12:54:56 -0700
> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 
>>> On Apr 17, 2022, at 9:24 AM, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 17, 2022, at 8:07 AM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:48:52 -0700
>>>> john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 16, 2022, at 9:47 AM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm getting this error:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~$ gnc-fq-check
>>>>>> Json3.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got
>>>>>> handshake key 0xce00080, needed 0xed00080)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But...
>>>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~$ sudo find /usr -name "libperl.so*" -exec
>>>>>> ls -lah {} \; 2>/dev/null -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6M Sep 24
>>>>>> 2021 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libperl.so.5.32.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1
>>>>>> root root 17 Sep 24 2021
>>>>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libperl.so.5.32 -> libperl.so.5.32.1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~$ perl --version
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 1 (v5.32.1) built for
>>>>>> x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 47 registered patches, see
>>>>>> perl -V for more detail)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So why does gnc-fq-check think there is a mismatch? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> As a first guess your perl json module is linked to a different
>>>>> version of libjson than the one you have. If you used
>>>>> gnc-fq-update to set up Finance::Quote then running it again
>>>>> should fix the problem. If you installed F::Q from your distro's
>>>>> package manager and there aren't any updates then the packager
>>>>> for that module is running a bit behind, a common problem for
>>>>> most distros since they rely on volunteers.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~/Downloads$ sudo gnc-fq-update
>>>> Reading '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
>>>> Database was generated on Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:17:02 GMT
>>>> Date::Manip is up to date (6.86).
>>>> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.51).
>>>> 
>>>> (update done here)
>>>> 
>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get upgrade
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree... Done
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>>> qdbus
>>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>> 
>>>> steve at stevesdesktop:~/Downloads$ dpkg -l | egrep -i
>>>> 'perl.*json|json.*perl' ii libjson-parse-perl
>>>> 0.61-1 amd64 module to read
>>>> JSON into a Perl variable ii libjson-perl
>>>> 4.03000-1 all module for
>>>> manipulating JSON-formatted data ii libjson-xs-perl
>>>> 4.030-1+b1 amd64
>>>> module for manipulating JSON-formatted data (C/XS-accelerated)
>>>> 
>>>> So am I right in thinking that the 4.030 versions are the problem?
>>>> If so, I'll have to contact the maintainers. 
>>> 
>>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
>>> 
>>> libjson-xs-perl is probably the mismatched library. briefly
>>> explains the nature of the problem. Before you can blame the Debian
>>> packager (the libjson-xs-perl maintainer is innocent) for upgrading
>>> perl without upgrading all of the packages you need to be sure that
>>> that's the only instance of libjson-xs-perl on your system. If
>>> there's another one earlier in perl's include path it might be the
>>> mismatched library. Have you ever run gnc-fq-update or used cpan
>>> directly on this machine? 
>> 
>> 
>> I forgot to paste in the URI that explains the problem. It's
>> https://foursixnine.io/blog/2019/01/21/perl-binaries-are-mismatched.html
>> 
> Looks like you are correct:
> 
> steve at stevesdesktop:~/Downloads$ sudo find / -name "libjson-xs-perl*" 2>/dev/null
> [sudo] password for steve: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libjson-xs-perl.md5sums
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libjson-xs-perl.list
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libjson-xs-perl_3.030-1_amd64.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libjson-xs-perl_4.030-1+b1_amd64.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libjson-xs-perl_3.040-1+b1_amd64.deb
> /usr/share/doc/libjson-xs-perl
> 
> This is starting to come back to me now. IIFC, the version of perl that
> came with my distribution did not have a Finance module and I ended up
> with a separate version of Perl that did have Finance. I've done several
> dist-upgrades since then so I'm going to delete the separate perl
> version and attempt to install the Finance module from the distribution
> perl.

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libfinance-quote-perl <https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libfinance-quote-perl>

Regards,
John Ralls