Oops, *my* bad. I released 3.0 from master instead of unstable. I’ve just done a reverse merge to fix it, and merged back so everything's in sync. Good thing you caught it before I shuffled the branches.
Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 8, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My bad, I forgot what I did! I didn't build from the tarball. I built > what I got from doing > > git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git > > which somehow brought down the unstable branch. > > Now I actually built from the tarball and got 3.0. Sorry for this noob > error. > > > On 04/08/2018 10:53 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> How are you running it? Perhaps it is running the old version. Run >> it by explicilty specifing the the full path the the executable from >> the terminal, something like >> /usr/local/bin/gnucash >> or wherever you installed it. If still no joy check the timestamp on >> the file you are running and make sure it matches when you built it. >> >> Colin >> >> On 8 April 2018 at 15:07, Steve Cohen <stevec...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ 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. 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