[GNC] Building 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

Wed Mar 29 19:39:27 EDT 2023

It might be easier to upgrade Ubuntu!  I am at 22.10.

Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
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On 3/29/23 15:39, Tom Weichmann wrote:
> 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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