Hi Charles

Am Donnerstag, den 14.02.2008, 12:45 -0800 schrieb Charles Day:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Nathan Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>         
>         On Jan 30, 2008 7:59 PM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>         wrote:
>         
>         
>                 
>                 On Jan 30, 2008 9:25 AM, Andreas Köhler
>                 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>                 
>                 > Hi Charles,
>                 >
>                 > On Mi, 2008-01-30 at 01:45 -0800, Charles Day wrote:
>                 > > I have a question about building GnuCash on
>                 Windows XP.  I've built
>                 > GnuCash
>                 > > plenty of times with install.sh and it works
>                 reliably. But if I go and
>                 > > change, say, one line of druid-qif-import.c, what
>                 is the quickest way to
>                 > > recompile/rebuild GnuCash?
>                 > >
>                 > > I thought that I could just go to the build
>                 directory and do a make,
>                 > > followed by make install, but if I do that then
>                 GnuCash hangs during
>                 > > startup, hogs the CPU and has to be killed.
>                 > >
>                 > > If I run install.sh again then it does an "svn
>                 up" (which I don't want)
>                 > and
>                 > > also runs configure again (which I don't want),
>                 and takes a very, very
>                 > long
>                 > > time to get through the whole process, but GnuCash
>                 does indeed work in
>                 > the
>                 > > end!
>                 > >
>                 > > Any advice would be appreciated.
>                 >
>                 > I suppose this happens because of dependency_libs
>                 lines in libtool
>                 > archives (*.la).  I used to run the attached script
>                 after `make
>                 > install`, maybe it helps you as well.
>                 >
>                 > -- andi5
>                 >
>                 >
>                 
>                 Thanks Andreas, that fixes it!  I see that this is
>                 basically the same
>                 Windows-specific steps that happen in install.sh "make
>                 install", with a few
>                 small adjustments. I couldn't explain some differences
>                 though, and I wonder
>                 if the script you gave me has gotten out of sync with
>                 what's in
>                 install.sh(the line about "start gnucash-bin" for
>                 example). 
>                 
>                 
>                 So it seems that "make" and "make install" is not
>                 enough for Windows
>                 developers, as we need to run this script afterwards.
>                  Any chance of
>                 including cleaninst.sh in SVN with the other packaging
>                 scripts? Perhaps it
>                 could be integrated with install.sh in a way that
>                 keeps the shared code in
>                 sync?
>         
>         I'm in favour of integrating this script with install.sh,
>         possibly by adding an optional command line argument to the
>         script. 
>         
>         Nathan
>         
> 
> Shall I file an enhancement request so that this doesn't get lost?

does packaging/win32/make_install.sh suffice?
And once more I forgot the feedback ;-)

-- andi5

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