On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Charles Day wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Phil Longstaff <plongst...@rogers.com >> >wrote: >> >> I don't know or use Mac OSX. Can someone who does look over the >>> attachments and tell me whether they are OK to apply to trunk for 2.3.3? >>> >>> >> I guess you are talking about bug 587843: >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587843 >> >> I build GnuCash with configure/make/make install at the command line, and >> against libraries built with MacPorts. So I could apply the patches here >> and >> make sure that it at least doesn't break my build. >> >> To really test the patches I assume I would have to switch from MacPorts >> to >> jhbuild so I can build GTK-OSX. I might try that if I can figure out how >> to >> keep my MacPorts build environment at the same time, at least until I can >> fully switch to jhbuild at a more convenient time. I would like, for the >> moment, to be able to continue working on register bugs without worrying >> about a learning curve for a different build tool. >> >> I don't use fink but maybe Dave or someone else can test that, even if >> only >> to make sure the build doesn't break. >> > > Testing to make sure it doesn't break MacPorts & Fink is a good idea. I did > check them on a Linux VM to make sure I hadn't broken anything (I had, but I > fixed it before making the patches.) > I applied the patch to configure.in and got an error in the configure step. The details have been added to bug 578843: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587843 > If you (or anyone) who has one or the other installed wants to try a > gtk-osx build, I think making a new user account with a clean environment > (i.e., no trace of MacPorts or Fink in any path) is probably the safest, > though I'll admit I haven't tried it. I do get support questions from users > pretty often who've had trouble because they didn't completely purge > MacPorts or Fink from their systems and jhbuild found the wrong macros or > pkg-config or something and went astray. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > Cheers, Charles _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
