Dear David, Stephen, Simon,
You're absolutely right, I should have given details of the build env. I
was building on Arch with Linux 6.1.3 and I was pretty sure I'd provided
all the required dependencies.
As I raised a doubt about in my first message, it turned out the problem
was down to trying to build and install on a system where gnucash was
already installed through my package manager. Thanks very much for the
(off-list) confirmation that that was likely the problem! Removing my
distro's gnucash allowed the build to complete immediately.
Kind regards,
D
On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 1:19 AM David Cousens
wrote:
> D It may help more if you can tell us what OS and version you are building
> on
> and the version of GnuCash you are building. There are usually 3 steps in
> the
> build:
> 1 Running "cmake" to set up the build
> 2 Running "make" or "ninja" to build the libraries and program
> 3 Running "ninja install" to install the program (this can be either a
> local
> install to your home directory or installed system wide for all users).
>
> If you have previously built GnuCash with failures, it is a good idea to
> delete
> the build directory before rebuidling
>
> The build on Linux instructions are still up to date AFAIK. The reports are
> generally separate from the main program and are written in Scheme/Guile
> and the
> guile interpreter runs within GnuCash. To change and customize reports
> should
> not require you to rebuild GnuCash itself. (see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports ).
>
> From the directory structure you appear to be building on a Linux variant.
> The
> cmake output to the terminal will tell you if you are missing any
> dependencies.
> You may need to enable the deb-src module in your software sources as
> others
> have noted, particularly to use the sudo apt build-dep gnucash command. In
> some
> linux repositories, the dependencies headers don't always have the generic
> libraries names
> apt-cache search where string is a n extract from the generic
> library
> name can usually help locate the appropriate development headers in a
> particular
> Debian/Ubuntu derivative
>
> David Cousens
>
> On Thu, 2023-01-05 at 22:18 +0100, ml enquirer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for all your hard work on gnucash; it's fantastic.
> >
> > To try and debug some budget reporting issues I'm having (
> >
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-January/104734.html
> ),
> > I'm trying to build for the first time. I *think* I installed all the
> > dependencies, but I'm running up against the following build error.
> >
> > Is it obvious to you what I must be doing wrong? Could it be related to
> the
> > fact that I'm trying to build on a system that already has gnucash
> > installed? I see notes during compilation like:
> > ;;; note: source file > dir>/gnucash/gnucash-
> > build/share/guile/site/3.0/gnucash/reports/standard/trial-balance.scm
> > ;;; newer than compiled
> > /usr/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache/gnucash/reports/standard/trial-balance.go
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > D
> >
> > ```
> > Backtrace:
> > In /usr/bin/guild:
> > 72:17 19 (main _)
> > In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
> > 634:9 18 (for-each # …)
> > In scripts/compile.scm:
> >279:27 17 (_ _)
> > In system/base/target.scm:
> > 65:6 16 (with-target _ _)
> > In system/base/compile.scm:
> > 187:6 15 (compile-file _ #:output-file _ #:from _ #:to _ #:env _ …)
> > 53:4 14 (call-with-output-file/atomic _ _ _)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > 1752:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> > In system/base/compile.scm:
> > 69:11 12 (_)
> >190:11 11 (_ #)
> >331:39 10 (read-and-compile # #:from _ …)
> >261:27 9 (_ _ _)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> >2836:4 8 (save-module-excursion #)
> > In language/scheme/compile-tree-il.scm:
> > 31:16 7 (_)
> > In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
> > 1218:36 6 (expand-top-sequence (#) …)
> > 1210:19 5 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …)
> >259:10 4 (parse _ (("placeholder" placeholder)) ((top) #(# # …)) …)
> > In unknown file:
> >3 (load-extension "libgnc-gnome" "scm_init_sw_gnome_module")
> > In system/foreign-library.scm:
> >190:25 2 (load-foreign-library _ #:extensions _ # _ #:search-path …)
> > In unknown file:
> >1 (dlopen "/usr/lib/libgnc-gnome.so" 1)
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > 1685:16 0 (raise-excep
