Thanks David for the reply I have a few moments before I'm back at the grind. As to the history of gnucash installs, I guess i date myself back to the 2014-2015 coming off the Moneydance era (once removed from Quicken/Quickbooks). At the time all tarballs were done with Autotools and installs available in Synaptic. Uninstalls were perceived to be clean - I did do some remove-- purge from time to time and still find flotsam hanging around. Upgrades went well, really there was no real install issues until cmake became manatory. I was never able to compile the tarballs on any gnucash version 3.* series. I was able to update via a flatpak install and latter by Stephen Butler's 3.5 deb construction. Those two worked well. But... Just getting cmake to work in my LM19.2 was a chore and over the last year or so, I was only able to get this latest version 3.15.3 to install in the last few weeks,with out all kinds of dependency issues (resolved I thought by updating to LM19.2). Even today when I test my machine for cmake version, it spews out 3.15 rc 4 - a failed install from before. I was using the latest cmake ( 3.15.3, I thought ) when I attempted this upgrade to gnucash 3.7 - utilizing by the way - what you had discovered that gnucash had cmake issues installing to /usr or /opt directories. I used your exact cmake -D install line and surprise to me, I got an install from tarball - a first for cmake - not autotools - even though it turned out to be a false hope. I had prepped everything, uninstalled and purged (command line and synaptic) what I thought was there. I was using the two basic source/build directory ideas, straight out of the directions. As mentioned the ver3.7 didn't work, force closed the programming and basically buggered up my linux box and just trying to get back to a working linux was a 1/2 day chore. I was removing/purging, timeshifting even to the point of purging my apt-cache - something I never have had to do since starting with Linux back 10 years ago. I clean install every major LM level since the LM9 series - there should not be any libs/configs left over. So , as you can tell, I'm not a real fan of cmake for a compiler on my linux boxes. There appears to be a lot of work left for me to do to get version 3.7 or even the new 4.* series operational on my LM19.2
Thanks for the heads up on the file construction - I'm stopping now and pulling the gnucash file from the Linux 2.6 and see if all is well on the Win 3.7 box. David -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
