My bad, I forgot what I did! I didn't build from the tarball. I built what I got from doing
git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git which somehow brought down the unstable branch. Now I actually built from the tarball and got 3.0. Sorry for this noob error. On 04/08/2018 10:53 AM, Colin Law wrote: > How are you running it? Perhaps it is running the old version. Run > it by explicilty specifing the the full path the the executable from > the terminal, something like > /usr/local/bin/gnucash > or wherever you installed it. If still no joy check the timestamp on > the file you are running and make sure it matches when you built it. > > Colin > > On 8 April 2018 at 15:07, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 04/07/2018 09:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Apr 7, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 04/07/2018 09:38 AM, John Ralls wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 8:06 PM, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com >>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com> >>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 04/06/2018 02:39 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com >>>>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 04/06/2018 02:22 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:39 AM, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com >>>>>>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>>>> <mailto:stevec...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I'm newly retired and have some time ... >>>>>>>>>> I have Ubuntu 14.0.4. I'm running GnuCash 2.6.1. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> But if I'm willing to build, is there any inherent reason why >>>>>>>>>> building >>>>>>>>>> 3.0 will fail in this environment? If not, I'll be willing to >>>>>>>>>> make the >>>>>>>>>> effort. I'd be glad for any information about bumps in the road I >>>>>>>>>> should know about in advance. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We're using 14.04 for one of the CI builds, so you shouldn't have >>>>>>>>> any trouble. You might want to examine >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/unstable/util/ci/ubuntu-14.04-docker >>>>>>>>> to copy the packages you need to install. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>> John Ralls >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thank you John. I'm noticing that the README file (from within >>>>>>>> the 3.0 >>>>>>>> tarball) is for version 2.6.x. Are more recent build instructions >>>>>>>> available elsewhere? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The best current build instructions are cmake/README_CMAKE.txt. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> John Ralls >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> After a few hours of false starts, I managed to build GnuCash 3.0 on my >>>>>> Ubuntu 14.0.4 system. >>>>>> >>>>>> I had to use this command line: >>>>>> >>>>>> cmake -D ALLOW_OLD_GETTEXT=ON -D GTEST_ROOT=~/src/gtest/googletest -D >>>>>> GMOCK_ROOT=~/src/gtest/googlemock ~/src/gnucash >>>>>> >>>>>> The ALLOW_OLD_GETTEXT was necessary because I only had an earlier >>>>>> version of gettext and could find no way to install the required version >>>>>> without compiling it too and I didn't want to enter that path. What >>>>>> negative features will result from doing this, and is it avoidable under >>>>>> this environment? >>>>>> >>>>>> I haven't tried installing it yet. Will it be necessary to uninstall >>>>>> the old one first, and what happens to my datafiles if I do that. In >>>>>> other words, what's the upgrade path here? >>>>> >>>>> For your personal use, no effect at all. It just means that some types >>>>> of files don’t have their translatable strings extracted into the >>>>> message catalog. That affects only translators working from git instead >>>>> of a tarball. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> John Ralls >>>>> >>>> OK, I built it. It seems to run, look nice, in general, it seems to >>>> work. Haven't given it any difficult test yet. But, why does the >>>> Help->About screen say it's version 2.7.8, when I built from the 3.0 >>>> tarball? >>> >>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies. >>> >>> Hmm, it shouldn’t say that. The MacOS build that should be from the same >>> tarball says 3.0 on >>> Help->About. Did you get the tarball from SourceForge or Github? >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >> I got the tarball from sourceforge: gnucash-3.0.tar.gz: 19,010,065 bytes >> from >> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz. >> >> The link to >> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz >> downloads a file of the same exact size. >> >> So I'm certainly stumped. >> >> What file in the package contains/produces the version number? >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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