Dennis, The instructions on the BuildUbuntu16.04 have now been modified so that they recommend the preferred place for the build directory is in the parent directory of the GnuCash sources as John and Geert recommended this as the preferred location.
It can actually be anywhere you wish to put it as long, as you issue the cmake command from the build directory and supply the path to the gnucash-3.1 sources as the last entry in the cmake command. You will find some links to breakout pages which discuss positioning the build directory on a link from the wiki page in more detail and why it is preferred. Use the recommended location unless you are confident you know how to modify the cmake command if you do change the location. In my last post, there were a set of commands which you can just type in as they are given there if you open a shell in /home/dennis/Applications. This is assuming that /home/dennis/Applications contains the gnucash-3.1 source directory in it as you indicated. If you have installed all the dependencies, that should build GnuCash. If any dependencies are missing, the output of the cmake command should identify which they are. In that case install the missing depenency and then you delete the build directory then run the commands from cd /home/dennis/Applications mkdir build-gnucash-3.1 ... again until cmake completes without error. Then run make and make install. If you are not sure of any errors issued by cmake if you copy the output of the cmake command from the terminal to a text file and attach it to your next post, we can work out what is happening. The easiest way to get such a file is to direct the output of the cmake command to a file. You can do this by appending " > cmake-output.txt" to the end of the cmake command then attach the file that is produced to your next post. If you are using Nabble to access the Gnucash User forum it is in the popup menu displayed from the More button. If you are using email just attach the file. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
