Uh, this isn't really the place to discuss this topic. You should find a gentoo-specific list. You should find out who was the previous Gentoo maintainer and work with them offline.
-derek Larry Siden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I haven't yet seen anyone else do it or state their intent to, I'm > thinking of submitting the Gnucash 1.8.9 source tarball for inclusion in > the Portage tree for Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) together with > necessary Portage scripts. Portage is Gentoo's installation and > revision control system, comparable to RPM on RedHat systems. > > I was able to build 1.8.9 from source on my box with Portage by using > this patch: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=28159&action=view > and this Portage script ("ebuild"): > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=28160&action=view, renaming it > to gnucash-1.8.9.ebuild. Please see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27978 for info on the problem > building Gnucash docs that the above patch resolves. > > The Portage script was originally submitted for 1.8.8 and lists these > dependencies: > > # runtime dependencies > RDEPEND=">=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1 > >=dev-util/guile-1.6 > >=dev-libs/slib-2.3.8 > >=media-libs/libpng-1.0.9 > >=media-libs/jpeg-6b > >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 > >=gnome-base/gnome-print-0.21 > media-libs/gdk-pixbuf > >=gnome-extra/gtkhtml-0.14.0 > <gnome-extra/gal-1.99 > >=dev-libs/libxml-1.8.3 > >=dev-libs/g-wrap-1.3.3 > >=gnome-extra/guppi-0.35.5-r2 > >=dev-libs/popt-1.5 > >=app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.1 > app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets > =app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2* > =sys-libs/db-1* > hbci? ( >=net-libs/openhbci-0.9.13 ) > ofx? ( >=dev-libs/libofx-0.6.4 ) > postgres? ( dev-db/postgresql )" > > # build-time dependencies > > DEPEND="${RDEPEND} > >=dev-lang/perl-5 > >=dev-libs/slib-2.3.8 > >=dev-lang/swig-1.3_alpha4 > <gnome-base/libglade-2 > gnome-base/libghttp > dev-util/pkgconfig > nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )" > > Does anyone have any comments on the above dependencies or on any other > information I have submitted above? > > When I submit this release and its accompanying build scripts to the > Portage source tree, I plan to submit them as "untested", meaning only > that it is untested for Portage systems. I am new to submitting > releases for inclusion in Portage so I have not yet studied what process > needs to be followed to mark this release as "stable" for Portage on > various architectures (i.e. x86, Alpha, Sparc, ...). > > My own testing consisted only of attempting to recreate the guile > segmentation fault I experience in 1.8.8. that occurred sometimes when > finishing a reconciliation, and sometimes when opening a new .xac file > after declining to save my previous work. I was not able to recreate > this after building 1.8.9, but that should not be regarded as the final > word because I do not have a core dump from earlier crashes. (For some > reason, core dumps seem to be disabled on my system, and I have never > found a config setting in the kernel build that enables or disables core > dumps. If anyone knows how to enable core dumps please tell me.) > > If someone else is already thinking of submitting Gnucash 1.8.9 to > Gentoo, I apologize. In this case, please let me know if I may be of > any assistance. > > -Larry Siden > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
