[GNC] Changes in gnucash 4 vs 3

[Peter Ratzlaff]

Am I misunderstanding what "building GnuCash in the 22.04 development 
environment" means? I have compiled gnucash on a 22.04 installation, and 
it results in gnucash having the issues of preferences not being honored.

On 3/10/22 23:46, john wrote:
> Preferences are mediated through GSettings, a feature of Glib-2.0. 
> Although the Gnome folks work really hard to maintain ABI consistency 
> it's really hard. Try building GnuCash in the 22.04 development 
> environment to see if that resolves the problem.
> 
> Gnome also provides a build environment in a flatpak called Gnome 
> Builder, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder 
> <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder>. That may help you sort out if the 
> problem is with GLib, Ubunutu, or somewhere else.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:51 PM, Peter Ratzlaff <pratzlaff at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:pratzlaff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I spoke too soon. I had built 4.9 on a 21.10 installation 
>> and it worked fine. Then building it on 22.04 results in the 
>> preferences and report plot problems again. So there's something about 
>> the way that the rest of the 22.04 system interacts with gnucash, 
>> which is the problem.
>>
>> On 3/10/22 20:46, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>>> 4.9 itself is a released version, but the packager may have built it 
>>> against an earlier Ubuntu target, so it might not work properly. (the 
>>> GnuCash team doesn't release .debs or maintain the Ubuntu repo version)
>>> Glad to hear you got it straight with a custom build.
>>> Maybe let the package maintainer know what's up so they can upload a 
>>> working build into the repo for release day.
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>> On 3/10/22 4:16 PM, Peter Ratzlaff wrote:
>>>> True, the release has only seen a feature freeze so far, and beta 
>>>> status is a few weeks away. I've compiled gnucash 4.9 from source 
>>>> and it is working perfectly fine. For now I will assume the Ubuntu 
>>>> package is causing the problem.
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