On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Charles Day wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Phil Longstaff
<plongst...@rogers.com>wrote:
I don't know or use Mac OSX. Can someone who does look over the
attachments and tell me whether they are OK to apply to trunk for
2.3.3?
I guess you are talking about bug 587843:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587843
I build GnuCash with configure/make/make install at the command
line, and
against libraries built with MacPorts. So I could apply the patches
here and
make sure that it at least doesn't break my build.
To really test the patches I assume I would have to switch from
MacPorts to
jhbuild so I can build GTK-OSX. I might try that if I can figure out
how to
keep my MacPorts build environment at the same time, at least until
I can
fully switch to jhbuild at a more convenient time. I would like, for
the
moment, to be able to continue working on register bugs without
worrying
about a learning curve for a different build tool.
I don't use fink but maybe Dave or someone else can test that, even
if only
to make sure the build doesn't break.
Testing to make sure it doesn't break MacPorts & Fink is a good idea.
I did check them on a Linux VM to make sure I hadn't broken anything
(I had, but I fixed it before making the patches.)
If you (or anyone) who has one or the other installed wants to try a
gtk-osx build, I think making a new user account with a clean
environment (i.e., no trace of MacPorts or Fink in any path) is
probably the safest, though I'll admit I haven't tried it. I do get
support questions from users pretty often who've had trouble because
they didn't completely purge MacPorts or Fink from their systems and
jhbuild found the wrong macros or pkg-config or something and went
astray.
Regards,
John Ralls
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