David, You have to be careful when downloading from Github to download the tar.gz or tar.bz2 (in this case gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2) and avoid the "Source code" downloads.
Regards, John Ralls > On Mar 28, 2023, at 1:55 PM, David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Geert, > > I usually build from the tarball but for some reason wasn't able to download > it > from the website yesterday so I tried downloading it from Github. > > David > > On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 20:34 +0800, Geert Janssens wrote: >> The big difference is a git clone can generate de required file because the >> needed info is in the clone metadata. The zip file is automatically generated >> by github. We don't control this and unfortunately it doesn't contain the >> info >> the build needs. For that reason each release is accompanied with a release >> tarball, generated by the gnucash developers themselves and that does have >> the missing file. You can find links to the tarball in the release >> announcements. >> >> Regards, >> >> Geert >> >> David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> schreef op 28 maart 2023 14:23:24 >> GMT+08:00: >>> That worked for me too Stephen, thnaks. >>> >>> The missing file is still not there in the git clone of the repository, so >>> either the cmake is looking for and finding it it elsewhere but the >>> downloaded >>> ZIP still isn't compiling. >>> Cheers >>> David >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> Sent from my smartphone. Please excuse my brevity. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
