On 19-02-2012 12:26, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 01:21:19AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:07:04PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59:07AM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>>>> I intend to build the smallest that I can subset of gnome-3, just to get
>>>> gnucash working, but not today or tomorrow. If it proves to need too many
>>>> packages or too difficult, I will stick to gnome-2 (probably 2.30.2), as I
>>>> do not need gnome, and do it just for that package. I have not yet
>>>> started, though.
>>>>
> [snip my initial response]
>
> Adding an 'executive summary' here, so people can decide if they
> want to read the detail: I can build 2.4.10, but it crashes and is
> therefore totally unusable. See final paragraph if not reading the
> rest.
>> In the end, I took a look because I'd like to get rid of
>> libgnomeprint{,ui} from the book: nasty, nasty, nasty - they support
>> guile-1.6 and 1.8, but not 2.0 during this release (because they
>> would have to drop 1.6 support). Looking around, fedora have
>> patches for this (9 for guile-2.0, from the gnucash list, a source
>> file (engine-common.i), a 2.4.9-never-unload patch (these are all in
>> gnucash-2.4.9-1.fc16 : I still can never manage to connect to
>> fedora gitweb to look online), and a patch to stop it disabling
>> icons when BUILDING_FROM_SVN is defined (dunno what that is about,
>> but if it works for them...). Also a 2.4.8 header fix that has
>> already been applied to 2.4.10.
>>
>> So, apply the patches, cp engine-common.i src/engine,
>> find src/quotes -name "*.in" -exec sed -i "s|use lib '@-PERLINCL-@';||g" {}
>> \;
>>
>> autoreconf
>> export BUILDING_FROM_SVN=yes
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>>
>> So far, I've confirmed that SLIB appears to not be needed with the
>> patches (just as well, latest version apparently doesn't work with
>> guile-2.0), but swig is required [ swig.org - I got 2.0.4, looks as
>> if it would like to use boost (fat chance!) but builds ok without
>> it.
>>
> On my not-gnome3 desktop, which already had the 'deprecated'
> gnome-2 packages, I built swig, libunistring, gc, guile (2.0 series).
> Then it needed gtkhtml >= 3.14.0 : gtkhtml-4, which will be going
> into the book for gnome-3,, didn't suffice (probably installed a
> different .pc file).
>
> Gtkhtml-3.30.2 is too old for the book's gtk2 or glib - too many
> things are now deprecated. In the end, I managed to build it with
> sed -i 's/-D.*DEPRECATED/ /' configure
>
> There are at least two separate deprecation issues, so its
> anybody's guess whether the resulting build will ever be useful for
> anything.
>
> On to gnucash-2.4.10. The patch for is at
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/misc-patches/gnucash-fedora-fixes
>
> Note the need for autoreconf, to be followed by the sed mentioned
> in the patch.
>
> It also needs --enable-error-on-warning=no to avoid failing to
> compile because of its own 'deprecated' messages.
>
> But, it crashes. Complains it can't find the defaults (perhaps
> that is normal on first run), takes me through the process, then
> crashes. Doing-it-myself, i.e. running update-gnucash-gconf in
> another window, errors out. After that, running gnucash produces a
> small window in the middle of the screen for about half a second,
> then it dies. It gives a backtrace, but not in any form that I
> understand. It mentions a .scm file, so I guess it's a guile-2.0
> issue.
>
> Note that it didn't need libgnomeprint, nor any obsolete gnome
> packages which are not in the book's 'deprecated gnome' section.
>
> As I said in what I've snipped, it doesn't need slib with the
> patch.
>
> It seems to me that no version of gnucash will be usable with the
> current BLFS packages. It probably needs an older gtk2/glib2, with
> current slib and guile-1.8.
>
> ĸen
Ken, I did not trim, as it was written so long ago.
If you still have this build and have time to give it a look, I had some
trouble in my last build of gnucash, but at the end it was with gnome2, in
particular, from libgnomeui, I forgot to set:
export LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH=$GNOME_PREFIX/lib/libglade/2.0
in /etc/profile.
--
[]s,
Fernando
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