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 wrote:
>
> Thanks Geert,
>
> I usually build from the tarb
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 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 wi
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
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I encountered the same error building the tarbal on Pop_os! 22.04. I
deleted it all and did a git clone. That build worked.
-Stephen
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:59 AM, David Cousens
wrote:
> Hi
> Just attempted to build GnuCash 5.0 on Linux Mint 21.1 from the tarball
> downloaded from Github
>
>
Hi
Just attempted to build GnuCash 5.0 on Linux Mint 21.1 from the tarball
downloaded from Github
cmake ran without errors but ninja gave the following error:
"ninja: error: '../libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-vcs-info.h', needed by
'libgnucash/core-utils/CMakeFiles/gnc-vcs-info', missing and no known
