[GNC] Trouble building 5.3

[Steve Butler]

First I would upgrade those 191 packages.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Make sure everything upgradable was upgraded.

Check that you have build-essentials.

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 14:15 Simon Roberts <simon at dancingcloudservices.com>
wrote:

> Hi all, I'm looking to build GNC 5.3 on my Ubuntu 20.04 box. I did this as
> a trial run on a laptop with Ubuntu 22.04, where it went flawlessly. But,
> on this 20.04 "production" machine, the same process is failing. I don't
> want to upgrade this at this time if I can help it--it would disturb too
> many other things that are working smoothly.
>
> I did this:
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep gnucash
> Reading package lists... Done
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 191 not upgraded.
>
> (I'm not sure why it installed nothing, I don't think I built GNC on this
> before)
> But then when I run the cmake process with:
>
> $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}/gnucash5.3 gnucash-5.3/
>
> It progresses a while before reporting:
>
> -- Checking for module 'gwenhywfar>=5.6.0'
> --   Requested 'gwenhywfar >= 5.6.0' but version of gwenhywfar is 5.1.3
> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:463
> (message):
>   A required package was not found
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious, it seems I have the older version:
>
> $ sudo apt list libgwenhywfar\*
> Listing... Done
> libgwenhywfar-core-dev/focal,now 5.1.3-1build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libgwenhywfar-data/focal,focal,now 5.1.3-1build1 all [installed,automatic]
> libgwenhywfar-doc/focal,focal 5.1.3-1build1 all
> libgwenhywfar79-dev/focal 5.1.3-1build1 amd64
> libgwenhywfar79/focal,now 5.1.3-1build1 amd64 [installed]
>
> And it doesn't seem that 20.04 is willing to upgrade this.
>
> Am I toast? Do I have to have Ubuntu 22.04 if I am to build this
> successfully? Or can anyone offer a workaround (e.g. is it perhaps
> practical to build the newer version of this library by hand?)
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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