Dave, The info about directories being separate is higher up that wiki page in the Cmake section. I too missed it not long ago trying to build the 2.7 series.
Perhaps the page needs to be re-organized or maybe inside that Ubuntu section, it needs to be made clear that the higher general sections need to be read first. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 6, 2018, at 7:38 PM, DaveC49 <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Thanks Rob, > > John passed on the message to me. I was following the Build#Ubuntu page on > the wiki, so this may need modifying too. I will keep notes as I sort out > and get used to building with Cmake. I guess the other cure would be to use > ../../gnucash-3.0 to go up to the parent directory from a build-cmake inside > to top level gnucash directory. With the extract from the tarball from the > website, this is labelled gnucash-3.0. > > I haven't pulled it down with git in which case it may not have the major > version number attached to the folder. > > I generally prefer to have the build directory under the top level directory > as I sometimes have sources for a couple of versions and that keeps the > relevant build with the source for that version. > > Cheers > > David > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel