Op donderdag 1 juli 2021 18:18:19 CEST schreef John Ralls: > > On Jul 1, 2021, at 4:18 AM, Lothar Paltins via gnucash-devel > > <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote:> > > Am 01.07.21 um 05:15 schrieb John Ralls: > >> You don't need to replace the old libraries, just remove them. Then Guile > >> won't be able to find them and will fall back to looking where it's told > >> to, in the build directory. Kinda like that (probably apocryphal) > >> Churchill quote about Americans always doing the right thing after > >> they'd exhausted all of the alternatives. Make/ninja uninstall is > >> easiest but doesn't always work if there are filename changes and the > >> builddir or sourcedir are reused. If it fails it's usually enough to > >> remove libgnc* from the install library folder; sometimes you also need > >> to remove the installed *.scm and *.go files from their respective > >> directories in libdir/guile/version/ccache and sharedir/guile.> > > I'm not really familiar with the build process of gnucash and with guile > > and I don't know, if it's possible. But I think, if a shared library is > > generated during a build process, then this version should be used > > afterwards unconditionally. Any other version anywhere in the file system > > is most likely outdated. And my install directory is /opt/gnucash-4.6 and > > it's empty during a "make". /usr/lib64 isn't my install directory, a > > "make uninstall" will not remove anything there. A library in this > > directory is almost certainly outdated. I want to install my compiled > > version separated from the distribution version, so I can't simply remove > > /usr/lib64/libgnucash-guile.so. I would have to restore it later. > You're absolutely right, it should be. Unfortunately Guile doesn't agree and > our efforts to convince it otherwise have been unsuccessful. It's not > possible on Linux to build GnuCash on a machine that has GnuCash installed > by the package manager without some gymnastics. I think the simplest work > around is to set up a VM for building GnuCash, but maybe there's another > way.
A (docker/podman) container is slightly more lightweight than a VM. But the idea is the same. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
