[GNC] Building 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

Wed Mar 29 18:39:11 EDT 2023

So I took a guess and thought that since the README.dependencies doc
required GCC 8.0 that it may also require g++ 8.  Ubuntu 18.04 has several
versions available including 6, 7 and 8.  I had them all installed but gcc
was linked to gcc7 and g++ was linked to g++7.  I had already changed the
link for gcc to gcc-8 but hadn't yet for g++ since the
README.dependencies didn't mentions g++.  However looking at the logs I saw
some mentions of c++ 7, so I changed my links in /usr/bin for g++ to now
link to g++-8.

My build got much further, however failed again at a new point:

https://pastebin.com/rAuYe1DM

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:14 PM Tom Weichmann <tommycw10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  Yes, the README.dependencies does state:
> Libraries/Deps
> --------------
>   required              Version
>   --------              _______
>   cmake                 3.10                    Build system manager
>
> and I do have 3.10 installed as you suspected.
>
> % cmake --version
> cmake version 3.10.2
>
> So, I downloaded, built and installed cmake 3.11 into my /usr/local and
> can confirm that I can now complete the cmake operation in the build
> process.  Since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is now 5 years old and is going EOL next
> month I'd say it's safe to just bump your cmake requirements to 3.11.  It
> looks like 3.11 was released 5 years ago already, but I don't know what
> other major distros are on.
>
> However, that being fixed, I am now running into issues building.
> Pastebin here:
>
> https://pastebin.com/tBDW6XeY
>
> Any ideas what is going on here?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 5:51 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu's 18.04's Cmake is too old. target_compile_definitions for
>> imported modules was introduced in Cmake 3.11 and Ubuntu 18.04 has 3,10.1.
>>
>> Our currently advertised minimum cmake *is* 3.10, but we didn't bump it
>> for 5.0 and we usually do. I'm inclined to bump the minimum Cmake
>> instead of going back got `pkg_check_modules`.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>> > On Mar 29, 2023, at 11:57 AM, Tom Weichmann <tommycw10 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm still running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which is still supported by Ubuntu
>> > albeit a bit old.  I've been happily building all of the 4.x versions
>> from
>> > source since the latest is not in this distro's repositories.  Now i'm
>> > trying to build version 5,0 and I'm running into a failure with cmake:
>> >
>> > -----------------------------------------------
>> > ~/dev/build-gnucash-5.0
>> > % cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ../gnucash-5.0
>> > -- The C compiler identification is GNU 8.4.0
>> > -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.5.0
>> > -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
>> > -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
>> > -- Detecting C compiler ABI info
>> > -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
>> > -- Detecting C compile features
>> > -- Detecting C compile features - done
>> > -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
>> > -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
>> > -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
>> > -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
>> > -- Detecting CXX compile features
>> > -- Detecting CXX compile features - done
>> > -- Found UnixCommands: /bin/bash
>> > -- Looking for pthread.h
>> > -- Looking for pthread.h - found
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create - not found
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
>> > -- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
>> > -- Found Threads: TRUE
>> > -- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1")
>> > -- Checking for module 'glib-2.0>=2.56.1'
>> > --   Found glib-2.0, version 2.56.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'gio-2.0'
>> > --   Found gio-2.0, version 2.56.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'gobject-2.0'
>> > --   Found gobject-2.0, version 2.56.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'gmodule-2.0'
>> > --   Found gmodule-2.0, version 2.56.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'gthread-2.0'
>> > --   Found gthread-2.0, version 2.56.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'libxml-2.0>=2.9.4'
>> > --   Found libxml-2.0, version 2.9.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'libxslt'
>> > --   Found libxslt, version 1.1.29
>> > -- Checking for module 'webkit2gtk-4.0>=2.14.0'
>> > --   Found webkit2gtk-4.0, version 2.32.4
>> > -- Checking for module 'gtk+-3.0>=3.22.30'
>> > --   Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.22.30
>> > -- Checking for module 'zlib'
>> > --   Found zlib, version 1.2.11
>> > -- Found Gettext: /usr/local/bin/msgmerge (found suitable version
>> "0.21.1",
>> > minimum required is "0.19.6")
>> > -- Found SWIG: /usr/bin/swig3.0 (found suitable version "3.0.12",
>> minimum
>> > required is "3.0.12")
>> > -- Using guile-2.2.x
>> > -- Using guile SRFI-64
>> > -- Using guile textual-ports
>> > -- Checking for module 'gwenhywfar>=5.6.0'
>> > --   Found gwenhywfar, version 5.9.0
>> > -- Checking for module 'aqbanking>=6.2.0'
>> > --   Found aqbanking, version 6.5.3
>> > -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue
>> > -- Looking for AB_Banking_RuntimeConfig_SetCharValue - not found
>> > -- Checking for module 'gwengui-gtk3'
>> > --   Found gwengui-gtk3, version 5.9.0
>> > -- Checking for module 'libofx'
>> > --   Found libofx, version 0.9.12
>> > -- Performing Test HAVE_OFX_BUG_39
>> > -- Performing Test HAVE_OFX_BUG_39 - Failed
>> > -- Found LibXslt: xslt;xml2 (found version "1.1.29")
>> > -- Found Perl: /usr/bin/perl (found version "5.26.1")
>> > -- Checking for module 'icu-uc'
>> > --   Found icu-uc, version 60.2
>> > -- Checking for module 'icu-i18n'
>> > --   Found icu-i18n, version 60.2
>> > -- Checking for module 'libsecret-1>=0.18'
>> > --   Found libsecret-1, version 0.18.6
>> > -- Boost 1.67.0 found.
>> > -- Found Boost components:
>> >   date_time;filesystem;locale;program_options;regex;system
>> > -- Performing Test have_stringop_truncation
>> > -- Performing Test have_stringop_truncation - Success
>> > -- Checking for GTEST
>> > -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread
>> > -- Check if compiler accepts -pthread - no
>> > -- Checking for GMOCK
>> > -- Looking for include file dirent.h
>> > -- Looking for include file dirent.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file dlfcn.h
>> > -- Looking for include file dlfcn.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file glob.h
>> > -- Looking for include file glob.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file inttypes.h
>> > -- Looking for include file inttypes.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file limits.h
>> > -- Looking for include file limits.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file locale.h
>> > -- Looking for include file locale.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file memory.h
>> > -- Looking for include file memory.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file stdint.h
>> > -- Looking for include file stdint.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file stdlib.h
>> > -- Looking for include file stdlib.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file string.h
>> > -- Looking for include file string.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file strings.h
>> > -- Looking for include file strings.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/stat.h
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/stat.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/time.h
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/time.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/times.h
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/times.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/types.h
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/types.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/wait.h
>> > -- Looking for include file sys/wait.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file unistd.h
>> > -- Looking for include file unistd.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file utmp.h
>> > -- Looking for include file utmp.h - found
>> > -- Looking for include file wctype.h
>> > -- Looking for include file wctype.h - found
>> > -- Check if the system is big endian
>> > -- Searching 16 bit integer
>> > -- Looking for stddef.h
>> > -- Looking for stddef.h - found
>> > -- Check size of unsigned short
>> > -- Check size of unsigned short - done
>> > -- Using unsigned short
>> > -- Check if the system is big endian - little endian
>> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:776 (target_compile_definitions):
>> >  Cannot specify compile definitions for imported target
>> "PkgConfig::GLIB2".
>> >
>> >
>> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:782 (target_compile_definitions):
>> >  Cannot specify compile definitions for imported target
>> "PkgConfig::GTK3".
>> >
>> >
>> > -- Performing Test standard_math_library_linked_to_automatically
>> > -- Performing Test standard_math_library_linked_to_automatically -
>> Success
>> > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
>> > See also "/home/tom/dev/build-gnucash-5.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
>> > See also "/home/tom/dev/build-gnucash-5.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
>> > ----------------------------------------
>> >
>> > I've checked all of the required deps in the README.dependencies and
>> > believe I have them all.  I've googled around and I don't see any
>> answers.
>> > Has anyone else run into a similar error building on other platforms?
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