2009/9/23 Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu>: > Quoting Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com>: snip >> >> So the downloadable source tar is not the same files as the svn >> version with the same tag? Are there any other differences? > > Of course not!! Absolutely! It contains lots of preprocessed data, > like swig-generated files, pre-processed localization files, etc.
It may be obvious to some, but I am afraid it was not obvious to me. This is my first foray into open source building (and on Ubuntu) so I am not up to speed with how the build and distribution system works. I still have much to learn. In that case am I missing something when I build from the svn code (which is actually the aim of the exercise as I am working on some patches)? I did ./autogen, ./configure (with options), make and sudo make install and it all seems ok. Am I missing something however? > >> So should I just be able to run configure (with my options) then make? > > Absolutely!! > > tar -xzf > cd ... > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash > make > sudo make install > >> I thought I did this and I got errors, something about m4. I picked >> up autogen from 2.3.5, ran that and then configure again and now make >> is running happily. I will repeat the exercise just to be certain >> that is what I did. > > You'll only get m4 issues if you somehow modified a Makefile... But if > you just take the gnucash tarball you wont need any autotools installed. > I tried again and it was ok, obviously I must have messed something up the first time round. Many thanks for your help Colin _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
