On Dec 21, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On 21-12-11 15:43, John Ralls wrote: >> I got an msys-1.0.11 installation working on my windows VM yesterday and got >> it to go as far as starting Gnucash (I have a link error that I think is >> left over from the weekend and a completely different setup using the latest >> mingw -- which didn't go away when I cleaned gnome, gwen and aqb, so I think >> I need to start over with a clean tree). Unfortunately the 2.4 build bombed >> on gwen with an error that I don't immediately understand. >> >> I'm not likely to have time to dig into that today, so if you can fix the >> gwen error, great. Otherwise, I think you should revert your change to >> custom.sh yesterday (so that it goes back to aqb4) and we'll see what >> happens on tonight's build. >> >> If we have to bump guile to 1.8, that should still be OK. 2.4 does work with >> 1.8, that's what ships on OSX. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> > The gwenhywfar bomb was actually a mingw build failure. However, when > install.sh fails, dist.sh is started immediately without any check if > install.sh finished successfully. (The windows build system really is that > ugly). > > Since gwen isn't built yet, dist.sh fails in copying its files. > > I think mingw fails because the old directory was still around. To fix this, > I have chosen to run reset.sh first in order to get a clean build environment > and have manually started a 2.4 build. We'll see what the result will be now. > > Regarding the guile update: if it were only the guile package that had to be > replaced it would be no problem. However, I never managed to build the slib > library for guile 1.8 on windows. So in trunk I have applied a series of > patches (once provided by Andy Wingo) to eliminate slib. So updating guile on > the 2.4 branch means we also have to apply this set of patches to GnuCash > 2.4. Is that ok for the stable branch ?
I think it's probably easier at this point to try to stay with guile-1.6.7 for 2.4. I found that the error message maps to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29583, which was against 1.8.6 when compiled with gcc-4.5. I first tried applying the patch (provided by that same Andy Wingo). While it applied fine, it didn't fix the problem. Now I'm trying to get gcc-4.4 to work, but I'm having a dinner party tonight and I don't know if I'll get it done until tomorrow. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
