Re: [GNC-dev] Build Fail for GC 4.1 on Linux MInt 20

2020-08-02 Thread David Cousens
John, Frank, Not sure what is happening here. Wehn Linux Mint 20 was released it was released with GnuCash 4.0 so someone succeeded in building it. I'v put a queston on the Mint forums to see if anyone there has had a similar proble. The same patch versions of libdbi and the drivers are in the U

Re: [GNC-dev] Build Fail for GC 4.1 on Linux MInt 20

2020-08-02 Thread John Ralls
David, The problem is very likely that Mint uses MySQL and MySQL-8 has dropped the C connector. Libdbi-drivers is no longer being maintained so there's no way to use the C++ connector that MySQL has replaced it with. Your best bet for now is probably to change to a distro that uses MariaDB as t

Re: [GNC-dev] Build Fail for GC 4.1 on Linux MInt 20

2020-08-02 Thread David Cousens
Thanks Mark Whatever the problem I have is, it doesn't appear to be the libdbi and libdbd drivers themselves that are the problem. I will have to dig a bit deeper. It must be an interaction with another package I have installed. I am building from the tarball at the moment but I will give it a t