On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:28 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > 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.
This produced a problem with gettext, but it's too late to investigate tonight. I'll have a look at it in the morning. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
