Cross-compiling gnucash/win32 on a linux box

2011-01-16 Thread Phil Longstaff
A number of linux distros have mingw32 packages, including compilers, gtk, gnome, ... Has anyone tried cross-compiling gnucash on linux using these packages? I've tried briefly and am stopped while running configure because something (binreloc?) doesn't support cross compilation. Has anyone

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > Historically, GnuCash has always stored its user specific application > > > data in ~/.gnucash based on old linux (unix ?) conventions. > > > > > Not everybody uses it, though. In fact, on my Debian Lenny VM, > > ~/.local/share contains one

Re: "Start of previous accounting period" data option for reports

2011-01-16 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Graham Menhennitt: > Guys, > > I want to be able to run reports based on the previous accounting > period. Up till now, I've done this by setting the accounting period to > absolute dates. It's finally bugged me enough to try adding this option > to the GnuCash

Re: What svn rev is 2.4.0?

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Kletsky
Thanks for clarifying things so I can get working again and reference "the right" 2.4.0 as a branch point and in diffs. No clue why svnversion -c returns 2135: but, to me, whatever it returns seems like what should be in the build (it does indicate local modifications as well, from svnversion -

Re: What svn rev is 2.4.0?

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Sunday 16 January 2011, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > Which SVN revision is "officially" 2.4.0? > > Tagged is r19971 > This is the official version. > The source tarball builds as r19974 > That was probably the latest svn revision at the time the tarball was created. That doesn't mean the tarball w

Re: compiling gnucash on windows, configure: error: perl is not found

2011-01-16 Thread Chikelue Oji
Hi Derek, I have the same version of m4 as you do. GNU M4 1.4.7. Thank you. Cheers, Chikelue --- On Sat, 1/15/11, Derek Atkins wrote: From: Derek Atkins Subject: Re: compiling gnucash on windows, configure: error: perl is not found To: "Chikelue Oji" Cc: "Derek Atkins" , gnucash-devel@gnu

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 January 2011 17:26, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > > I'm a Product Manager by day... > > From my perspective, changing the location of the preference files on > Unix-like platforms doesn't provide significant value either to the end user > or to making the code more accessible to prospective develope

What svn rev is 2.4.0?

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Kletsky
Which SVN revision is "officially" 2.4.0? Tagged is r19971 The source tarball builds as r19974 An svn checkout of 2.4.0 builds as r20008 $ svn info Path: . URL: http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.0 Repository Root: http://svn.gnucash.org/repo Repository UUID: 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Kletsky
I'm a Product Manager by day... From my perspective, changing the location of the preference files on Unix-like platforms doesn't provide significant value either to the end user or to making the code more accessible to prospective developers. I'd much rather see development time go into thi

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Thanks for your feedback. On Sunday 16 January 2011, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > In my opinion, adopting a "standard" that > > * goes counter to long-established practice > >From what I've read is serves a different target audience. The XDG base specification was created to cater for a new breed of u

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Sunday 16 January 2011, John Ralls wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: >>> Historically, GnuCash has always stored its user specific application >>> data in ~/.gnucash based on old linux (unix ?) conventions. >>> >>

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Sunday 16 January 2011, John Ralls wrote: > On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Historically, GnuCash has always stored its user specific application > > data in ~/.gnucash based on old linux (unix ?) conventions. > > > > This didn't work really well on Mac OS X/Quartz, so Jo

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > Historically, GnuCash has always stored its user specific application data in > ~/.gnucash based on old linux (unix ?) conventions. > > This didn't work really well on Mac OS X/Quartz, so John has overridden this > path on OS X to make more

Re: ~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Jeff Kletsky
In my opinion, adopting a "standard" that * goes counter to long-established practice * isn't widely accepted will cause more problems than it is worth. There is a significant documentation change cost for GNUCash. There is a significant coding/test cost (either auto-upgrade, or checking t

Re: r20104 - Disable usage of qof/test for now because is does not yet compile

2011-01-16 Thread John Ralls
On Jan 16, 2011, at 1:41 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Saturday 15 January 2011, John Ralls wrote: >> On Jan 15, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: >>> Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2011 schrieb John Ralls: >> Modified: >> gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/qof/Makefile.am >> gnucash/trunk/

~/.gnucash and XDG default directories

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
Historically, GnuCash has always stored its user specific application data in ~/.gnucash based on old linux (unix ?) conventions. This didn't work really well on Mac OS X/Quartz, so John has overridden this path on OS X to make more sense there. Now there's a bugreport that indicates this isn't

Re: r20104 - Disable usage of qof/test for now because is does not yet compile

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Saturday 15 January 2011, John Ralls wrote: > On Jan 15, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > > Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2011 schrieb John Ralls: > Modified: > gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/qof/Makefile.am > gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/qof/test/test-qof.c > Log: > Disabl

Re: r20104 - Disable usage of qof/test for now because is does not yet compile

2011-01-16 Thread Geert Janssens
On Saturday 15 January 2011, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2011 schrieb John Ralls: > > >> Modified: > > >> gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/qof/Makefile.am > > >> gnucash/trunk/src/libqof/qof/test/test-qof.c > > >> Log: > > >> Disable usage of qof/test for now because is does not yet