So, the wiki is less than clear on how to do this. First I tried going through the instructions under Building for Development beginning with
jhbuild shell cd $PREFIX/../src/gnucash-2.6.17 But it turned out that there was no path with the prefix $PREFIX/../src No src directory had yet been created under $PREFIX - this is a clean user account, with most of an attempt at building stable as the only thing in it. So I skipped the uninstall, and made a guess as to where I was supposed to go with the cd .. Then I ran git clone -b maint https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git Nearly giving up after a dozen or so failures to get the whole thing in one gulp. Early morning seems best. When I tried the autopen.sh && configure, it became clear that many dependencies weren’t in place. Many of the early dependencies complained about were to be found in my gnucash-stable tree, and as they were external tools I just linked them to the corresponding location, which got me somewhat further, but not everything was found still. So I skipped to “Building Unstable Versions” and did the commenting and uncommenting recommended. I did a Jhbuild bootstrap And then jhbuild build. Which complained: jhbuild build: A module called ''meta-gnucash-unstable'' could not be found. At this point I tried $ jhbuild shell $ echo $PREFIX /Users/gnucashdev/gnucash-unstable $ cd $PREFIX/gnucash $ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-ofx --enable-aqbanking --enable-binreloc --enable-dbi --with-dbi-dbd-dir=$PREFIX/lib/dbd This worked for awhile, but then I got a configure error: configure: error: You are building from git but swig was not found or too old. To build gnucash you need at least swig version 2.0.10. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
