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.