I wanted to try this version of Ledger with the Python option. I am
running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.
First, I had to update acprep to work with the precise pangolin
distribution. I naively copied the oneiric-related code to precise, and it
seemed to work fine. I also backed off the boost version requirement in
CMakeLists.txt from 1.47.0 to 1.46.1, which is currently the stock version
for Ubuntu 12.04.
There are several more boost package dependencies than are currently
covered by "acprep dependencies". But acprep will tell you what's missing
the next time you "acprep update", so that wasn't too terrible.
But even after I resolved all of the obvious library dependencies, I still
got an error:
The following Boost libraries could not be found:
boost_optional_components
This seemed suspicious to me, since there is of course no "optional
components" boost library. However, in CMakeLists.txt, there is a call to
find_package with the OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS argument set to ${BOOST_PYTHON}.
Since the intent of BOOST_PYTHON appears to be that it will be "python" if
USE_PYTHON is enabled and the Python libraries are found, and blank
otherwise, I simply commented out the OPTIONAL_COMPONENTS argument of
find_package on line 66 of CMakeLists.txt, but added ${BOOST_PYTHON} to the
REQUIRED argument of find_package.
Then the build succeeded.
I noticed that even though I set BUILD_DEBUG to OFF, Cmake was printing
plenty of output that told me that it was performing a DEBUG build. "acprep
info" reports that the current flavor is debug.
The resulting ledger executable is able to process my ledger data file, and
"ledger python" works, so I guess I'll count this as a successful build. I
can't get "acprep proof" to work, so I cannot provide more definitive test
results. If there are any other tests that you recommend so that we can
bless boost 1.46.1, I'd be glad to run them.
