Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (144 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 02:51:31PM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 14:42 +0100, Petr Gajdos wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 02:08:43PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > > gnucash currently builds but does not work because it /requires/ guile
> > > > > versions less than 2.0, which are not (yet) present in openSUSE 12.1.
> > > > > To "fix" gnucash, a guile1 package would have to be made available and
> > > > > gnucash would have to build with it. Is that the sort of thing that
> > > > > would be possible after RC2?
> > > > Removing gnucash is still an option, yes.
> > >
> > > guile1 is available in multimedia:libs thanks to Dave Plater.
> > > Could I help with it somehow?
> > >
> > > Petr
> >
> > Petr,
> >
> > The 'nice' fix to get would actually be a real fix on gnucash for guile
> > 1 / 2 conversion.
> >
> > Together with upstream there was a lot of work undertaken already to
> > build it (which succeeds with all the patches we have, which is also
> > part of the 2.4.8 release), but runtime actually fails to load guile
> > based modules (Also the test suite of gnucash fails on that one).
> >
> > bgo#655901 has some more information about this issue.
>
> Dominique,
>
> here are steps, that caused GnuCash start at least on my factory
> system (hopefuly I didn't forgot something):
>
> 1. apply patch to gnucash enclosed, build and install it
>   see
>   
> http://blog.peter-b.co.uk/2011/06/geda-and-guile-dealing-with-deprecated.html
> 2. remove maxdepth setting from 
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm
> 3. replace all occurences of N_ by _ in all files in
>   /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report
>   /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/standard-reports
>
> It is surely not perfect, but only way I found in short time I have
> for that. I'll investigate it further.

While a 'gnucash that works with guile 2.0' is a laudable goal, in the
interests of providing a gnucash that is less likely to have issues
wouldn't simply providing a guile1 (and guile1-devel) package and
having gnucash build against that be safer? At least for 12.1 ?



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Jon
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