[GNC] Building 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

john jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Mar 29 23:41:47 EDT 2023 

Oh, yeah. We changed the branch names, so for now there's only stable. If you don't want to re-clone, do this to get back in sync:

   git fetch origin
   git branch -m master stable
   git branch -u origin/stable stable
   git remote set-head origin -a

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Mar 29, 2023, at 4:48 PM, Stephen M. Butler <Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh, forgot one minor detail.  I did a "git pull" on my gnucash git clone and then attempted to apply the commands that John posted a few messages back.  Didn't work as expected so I did the extreme and blew my clone away and redid it from github.
> 
> Then compiled from the most recent patch: 5.0-5-g77cb9c6af4+(2023-03-27)
> That may explain why my compiles work.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> On 3/29/23 16:39, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> It might be easier to upgrade Ubuntu!  I am at 22.10.
>> 
>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
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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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