On 11/13/19 9:27 PM, John Ralls wrote: > >> On Nov 13, 2019, at 5:46 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >> On 11/13/19 5:18 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>>> On Nov 13, 2019, at 4:45 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Decided to reorg within the GnuCash directory. Created Source and Build >>>> sub-directories and redid the clone with a v3.7 workfile for git tag of >>>> 3.7 under Source. >>>> >>>> Went to Build and created gnucash-3.7 directory and cd'd into it. >>>> Attempted the cmake (worked fine) and make dist (failed). I then >>>> cleaned the folder and did the cmake again followed by a make (which >>>> failed with the below list). But that then allowed the make dist to work. >>>> >>>> Try #1 >>>> >>>> cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7 >>>> >>>> make dist >>>> >>>> Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c >>>> [ 0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py >>>> [ 0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c >>>> Scanning dependencies of target dist-ChangeLog >>>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'ChangeLog', needed by >>>> 'CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog'. Stop. >>>> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:132: >>>> CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog.dir/all] Error 2 >>>> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:107: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2 >>>> make: *** [Makefile:197: dist] Error 2 >> <<snip>> >> >> >>>> Is this normal having to do a 'make' before doing 'make dist'? Is there >>>> something that 'make' is doing that is needed by 'make dist'? >>>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Nope, it's https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797407. >>> >>> Regards, >>> John Ralls >>> >>> >> The above part of that same bug? > Do you mean the ChangeLog error? No, that's not part of bug 797407. > > That seems to be a Makefile problem; ninja builds the dist target without > complaint. Interestingly on MacOS > I get a different failure when using make: > > Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c-py > [ 0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py > [ 0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c-py > Scanning dependencies of target dist-doc-gnucash-1 > make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-vcs-info.h', > needed by 'doc/gnucash.1'. Stop. > make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1491: > doc/CMakeFiles/dist-doc-gnucash-1.dir/all] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:290: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2 > make: *** [Makefile:236: dist] Error 2 > > I can get make dist to work if I first say `make gnc-vcs-info`. That builds > libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-vcs-info.h and with that, make dist is happy. There > must be some dependency missing in the dist target. > > Try saying `make ChangeLog` in a freshly configured build-dir, maybe that > will build the ChangeLog and then make dist will work for you. > > Ninja didn't complain about either, it just cheerfully built everything. > *Another* reason to prefer it over make. > > Regards, > John Ralls
Doing a make ChangeLog did not do the trick. And with gnc-vcs-info also didn't do the trick. Doing both back-to-back did do the trick. Did a fresh cmake followed by ninja dist and got: ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory Try with ChangeLog: cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7 ... make ChangeLog Scanning dependencies of target ChangeLog Built target ChangeLog make dist Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c [ 0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py [ 0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c Scanning dependencies of target dist-ChangeLog [ 0%] Built target dist-ChangeLog Scanning dependencies of target dist-doc-gnucash-1 make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-vcs-info.h', needed by 'doc/gnucash.1'. Stop. make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1527: doc/CMakeFiles/dist-doc-gnucash-1.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:107: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:197: dist] Error 2 Try with gnc-vcs-info: rm -rf * cmake --WITH_PYTHON=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../../Source/v3.7 ... make gnc-vcs-info Scanning dependencies of target gnc-vcs-info Built target gnc-vcs-info make dist Scanning dependencies of target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c [ 0%] Generating gnucash_core.c, gnucash_core_c.py [ 0%] Built target dist-bindings-python-gnucash-core-c Scanning dependencies of target dist-ChangeLog make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'ChangeLog', needed by 'CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog'. Stop. make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:132: CMakeFiles/dist-ChangeLog.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:107: CMakeFiles/dist.dir/rule] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:197: dist] Error 2 As I said above, doing both allowed make dist to work. -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel