Re: [GNC] How to set opening balances? [was: Re: Help!]

2025-02-13 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Hello, Gaya: Welcome to GnuCash! I hope this list will help you set yourself right. The first piece of advice on using this list: write a Subject: line which describes your objective.  The subject "Help!" tells me how you feel about your situation, but not what you are trying to accomplish. I

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-19 Thread nor via gnucash-user
Hello John/Andrian, It is pretty heavy for me, non IT. Please work out so we have options in preferences. Regards, Nor - nor -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Hmm.. There are 57 packages on Mint that match `gtk-dbg`, but none of them seem terribly relevant. (all are specific to an app, save two for XDG) Here's what I received from `bt full` after triggering the crash per your correct syntax with just gnucash-dbgsym (odd that "raise.c: No such file o

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Roger that. I'll see what I can muster from bt. I need the GTK debugging symbols too? Makes sense. Very well, off to apt then. Regards, Adrien On 8/18/20 10:19 PM, John Ralls wrote: Nah, it's not *that* low level. It's all in how Gdk represents a user's monitors, keyboards, and pointing devic

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread John Ralls
Nah, it's not *that* low level. It's all in how Gdk represents a user's monitors, keyboards, and pointing devices. That's changed quite a bit in the last 5 years or so as the Gtk4 design has evolved and GnuCash hasn't really been paying attention: It's still mostly a Gtk2 application with only t

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Nah, graphics are straight. Mint was nagging me about not having hardware acceleration turned on for the VM, so I did and it stopped yapping. But that didn't affect the crash. The display is properly claimed and has a driver. Nothing in dmesg to indicate any issues with the display. Xrandr sho

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Thanks for saving me time finding the proper syntax on gdb, I was fixing to look that up. In this case, it looks like Mint dumped the stack anyway, but good to know though. Regards, Adrien On 8/18/20 3:19 PM, John Ralls wrote: Two mistakes: When you start gdb you tell it the executable to run

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Perhaps an issue that it is in a VM? Mint also keeps complaining about video drivers but I've installed the Guest Additions and the Proprietary Drivers app doesn't list anything. I'll investigate graphics and see if the adapter is "not claimed" or something else is weird. Regards, Adrien On

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread John Ralls
Never mind the patch, I mis-interpreted the code. It's not that the cursor shouldn't be NULL: NULL is OK. If it's *not* null then the window and the cursor need to be for the same GdkDisplay so the problem is that we're querying the wrong GdkDisplay to create the cursor. That shouldn't be possib

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread John Ralls
Two mistakes: When you start gdb you tell it the executable to run. Everything you add to the run command is passed as an argument to that executable and environment variables aren't arguments GnuCash understands. You need to do it this way: $ gdb /usr/bin/gnucash gdb> set env GTK_DEBUG=interac

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
What I copied from syslog appears to look like a stack trace. If not quite, let me know and I'll see what I can do, but already this is proving elusive. I've got debug symbols installed and I can do `gdb gnucash` then `run` but that won't produce the crash because the inspector isn't running.

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Sorry John, I thought I had split this off to a new topic, but I wasn’t successful. (still experimenting with gmane) I managed to do so I think with a followup post using a similar subject line. I posted the syslog there. gnucash.trace was empty. Regards, Adrien > On Aug 18, 2020 w34d231, at 1

Re: [GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-18 Thread John Ralls
It could also be a bug in the minty theme or in Gtk. Something tried to pass a nullptr for a cursor and whoever coded gdk_window_set_cursor_internal decided that that's such an awful problem that the program should crash instead of logging an error and leaving the cursor as-is. Without a full s

[GNC] GTK Inspector blowing up on Mint 20 (was Re: help increasing size of font in GnuCash?)

2020-08-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
That didn't get very far. Not sure if this is a GnuCash bug, or an Inspector bug: ``` mint@mint:~$ GTK_DEBUG=interactive /usr/bin/gnucash Found Finance::Quote version 1.49. ** Gdk:ERROR:../../../../gdk/gdkwindow.c:6530:gdk_window_set_cursor_internal: assertion failed: (!cursor || gdk_window_get

Re: help for gnucash

2018-02-26 Thread John Ralls
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 1:30 AM, keithwjones wrote: > > Gareth Evans wrote >> Are there any other scources of help for gnucash? > > Documentation: > > http://gnucash.org/docs.phtml Be sure to read the Tutorial and Concepts Guide you find there. Note that those

Re: help for gnucash

2018-02-26 Thread keithwjones
Gareth Evans wrote > Are there any other scources of help for gnucash? Documentation: http://gnucash.org/docs.phtml Keith - GnuCash 2.6.19 - Windows 10 -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html

Re: Help finding Account Register

2017-12-21 Thread D via gnucash-user
Out seems to me that section 2.3 of the Tutorial & Concept Guide (The Basics: Interface) might help you out. David On December 22, 2017, at 6:49 AM, Dave Orsinger wrote: Thanks but that only gave me an Account Summary, not the Register (checking) account where I can post transactions. On 12

Re: Help finding Account Register

2017-12-21 Thread david amaral via gnucash-user
In your home directory should be a gnucash directory with backups. you can open on older file. also select "file" as you would close gnucash and see if there is a backup there. From: Dave Orsinger To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 6:30 PM Subject: Help fin

Re: Help finding Account Register

2017-12-21 Thread Dave H
Click on the sideways triangle to expand the assets view, you might have to do this a couple of times depending on your setup and then double click on your Checking Account to open the register . Dave H. On 22 December 2017 at 11:48, Dave Orsinger wrote: > Thanks but that only gave me an Ac

Re: Help finding Account Register

2017-12-21 Thread Dave Orsinger
Thanks but that only gave me an Account Summary, not the Register (checking) account where I can post transactions. On 12/21/2017 5:36 PM, Dave H wrote: Have you tried View >> New Accounts Page? Cheers Dave H On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 11:30 am, Dave Orsinger > wrote

Re: Help finding Account Register

2017-12-21 Thread Dave H
Have you tried View >> New Accounts Page? Cheers Dave H On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 11:30 am, Dave Orsinger wrote: > I inadvertently "x 'd" out of my Account (checking) Register and can't > figure out a way to get it back. I've gone through a lot of the > documentation but haven't found anything tha

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Lorrie E Clemens writes: > OK, so I removed the Gnucash that was in my applications folder and > mover the Gnucash-2-6.18 in. I double clicked on that and I get the > Gnucash window that pops up the the small window that says free > accounting software. But I still get that the file/URI/user

Re: Help Files

2017-10-21 Thread Dave H
Dick, There was something in the mailing list a few days ago about help file problems on Windows. Apparently you need to go back and download/install version 2.6.18-3. Cheers Dave H. On 22 October 2017 at 00:12, Dick Marvin wrote: > Greetings, > > I am just beginning to use Gnucash. I have d

RE: Help Files

2017-10-21 Thread Ken Pyzik
Dick -- Make sure you get the v2.6.18 that was the 10.8.2017 build (I think it is build 3). The first and second builds were missing the help files but this third build has them. Get it directly from Gnucash.org - it should be v2.6.18-3. Ken -Original Message- From: gnucash-user [ma

Re: Help requested - delete a transaction

2017-10-20 Thread John Ralls
> On Oct 20, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Herndon Elliott wrote: > > Some of my transactions have been somehow marked "read only" and when I try > to delete them, the app wont let me. How do I remove the "read only" > setting? > > Same thing for an account, if it has read only transactions, the account

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Lorrieecc
Thank you so very much! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 20, 2017, at 4:01 PM, Dave H wrote: > > Hi Lorrie, > > I suggest you create a "GnuCash" folder in your "Documents" folder and copy > your gnucash files there - that way your log files don't clutter up your > desktop. > > Cheers Dave H (ne

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Dave H
Hi Lorrie, I suggest you create a "GnuCash" folder in your "Documents" folder and copy your gnucash files there - that way your log files don't clutter up your desktop. Cheers Dave H (newly transitioned Mac user :-) On 21 October 2017 at 08:47, Lorrie E Clemens wrote: > Yes, that is it. Where

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Lorrie E Clemens
Yes, that is it. Where should I store this file after I make changes to it (and save)? Lorrie Sent from my iPad > On Oct 20, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Maf. King wrote: > >> On Friday, 20 October 2017 23:03:48 BST Lorrie E Clemens wrote: >> HimDerek, >> So I am missing a step here. >> I double click on

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Lorrie E Clemens
OK, so I removed the Gnucash that was in my applications folder and mover the Gnucash-2-6.18 in. I double clicked on that and I get the Gnucash window that pops up the the small window that says free accounting software. But I still get that the file/URI/users... cannot be found. I tried launchi

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Maf. King
On Friday, 20 October 2017 23:03:48 BST Lorrie E Clemens wrote: > HimDerek, > So I am missing a step here. > I double click on Gnucash 2-6-18 and I get the box with authors, copying, > etc. I click on Gnucash and I get the tip of the day, then a box pops up in > the left corner saying that the fil

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi First, when you click on gnucash-2.6.18, you should drag the gnucash app to your /Applications folder. Then double click on the /Applicstions/Gnucash app. The error you see is because it was trying to load the file from your desktop, but you moved or removed it so it can't find it. You will

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Lorrie E Clemens
HimDerek, So I am missing a step here. I double click on Gnucash 2-6-18 and I get the box with authors, copying, etc. I click on Gnucash and I get the tip of the day, then a box pops up in the left corner saying that the file/URI/ etc could not be found. I must be taking the wrong path. Lorri

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Derek Atkins
On a Mac you cannot open a file via double click. When gnucash opens on a Mac it will always open the last file it had open, regardless of what you click on. On a Mac you must use File - > Open to open a specific file. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On October

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread Lorrie E Clemens
Hi David, I have done as you suggested, but no matter what version that I open that says gnucash that has 14 digits.log I get “file/URI/Users/Lorrie ... gnucash could not be found.” When I double click on a file 2.38.21PM.gnucash I get the same message. When I open the file that ends with a fo

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Lorrie, With regard to the files on the desktop, David Carlson's advice is sound. As for keeping the app on your computer, I suspect that you were opening gnucash from the downloaded disk image; you must drag gnucash.app from that image into the Applications folder to complete the installation. 

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-20 Thread David Carlson
Lorrie, you should have replied to All because I do not have a Mac, and I cannot help you. Others here can. David C On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:32 AM, Lorrie E Clemens wrote: > Hi David, > No, I have a Mac. > Lorrie > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:49 PM, David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.

Re: help finding my file

2017-10-19 Thread David Carlson
Hi Lorrie, Welcome to GnuCash. For this discussion I am assuming that you have installed GnuCash onto a Windows computer. You only need to do that once. First, create a folder under My Documents called LorrieGnuCashData or something like that. If you have your file explorer set to show file ex

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-05 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Rich Shepard writes: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> What URL is showing the error? > > Derek, > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla > >> What is the exact error message? > > Unable to connect. Try https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla and see what happens? The serve

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems [FIXED]

2017-09-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Nope, not the developers. GnuCash doesn’t care what version of libicu is installed, and I’m pretty sure WebKitGtk doesn’t either. GnuCash doesn’t use ICU directly and WebKit’s usage is simple enough that pretty much any version will do. The problem is with

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 3, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: > >> I'm glad you got it fixed locally ... > > Thanks, Geert. So am I! > >> You could run ldd on that library and see what it's trying to link to. If >> it's version 51, I think the libwebkitgtk

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: I'm glad you got it fixed locally ... Thanks, Geert. So am I! You could run ldd on that library and see what it's trying to link to. If it's version 51, I think the libwebkitgtk maintainer should know. Unless he's of the opinion libwebkitgtk1 is de

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread Geert Janssens
On zondag 3 september 2017 19:26:25 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > Everyone: > > Found and fixed the problem!! > > Ran ldd on the not-found library (libgnc-gnome) and saw two missing > dependent libraries: > > libicuuc.so.51 => not found > libicudata.so.51 => not found > > T

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems [FIXED]

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
Everyone: Found and fixed the problem!! Ran ldd on the not-found library (libgnc-gnome) and saw two missing dependent libraries: libicuuc.so.51 => not found libicudata.so.51 => not found These are missing because Slackware-14.2 provides both in version 56. Made soft li

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Do you still have the older version of GnuCash installed? If so you'll need to remove it. John, No. When gnucash-2.6.16 failed to load after the distribution upgrade I removed it. Since then I've not been able to build any version of gnucash. Rich

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, tjoen wrote: Have you done # make install ? No because make fails before completion. There's nothing to install. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-use

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread tjoen
On Sun, 2017-09-03 at 07:52 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > $ locate libgnc-gnome > /opt/SBo/gnucash-2.6.17/src/gnome/libgnc-gnome.la > /opt/SBo/gnucash-2.6.17/src/gnome/.libs/libgnc-gnome.so.0 > /opt/SBo/gnucash-2.6.17/src/gnome/.libs/libgnc-gnome.lai > /opt/SBo/gnucash-2.6.17/src/gnome/.libs/libgnc-

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Sep 2017 07:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: > > > It’s part of GnuCash. Any library that starts with libgnc or libgncmod is > > part of GnuCash. Its main external dependency is libgtk-x11.so though it > > has several others in the Gno

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: I don't have libgtk-x11.so here ... Correction: the library is installed: $ ll /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963 Sep 10 2016 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 19 18:39 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so ->

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: It’s part of GnuCash. Any library that starts with libgnc or libgncmod is part of GnuCash. Its main external dependency is libgtk-x11.so though it has several others in the Gnome stack. John, I thought it was provided by gnucash. I don't have libgtk-x11

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 09/02/2017 09:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I believe resolving version incompatibilities will fix the problem. >> Perhaps that upgraded libicul18n libraries broke gnucash led me down this >> long path. That'll be the next tests if needed. > >   I've

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 2, 2017, at 6:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I believe resolving version incompatibilities will fix the problem. >> Perhaps that upgraded libicul18n libraries broke gnucash led me down this >> long path. That'll be the next tests if needed.

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: I believe resolving version incompatibilities will fix the problem. Perhaps that upgraded libicul18n libraries broke gnucash led me down this long path. That'll be the next tests if needed. I've cleaned out the rest of the cruft from long ago. There ar

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: You're building too new a webkit. GnuCash 2.6.x requires the Webkit1 API which was removed after WebKitGtk-2.4.x. WebKitGtk-2.4.x uses autotools. GnuCash master uses the WebKit2 API and works with WebKitGtk-2.6.x. John, Thank you for clarifying. I've

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 2, 2017, at 5:38 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, tjoen wrote: > >> This i how I did it: >> mkdir build >> cd build/ >> cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ >> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ >> -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \ >> -DPORT=GTK \ >>

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Sep 2017, tjoen wrote: This i how I did it: mkdir build cd build/ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \ -DPORT=GTK \ -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib64 \ -DUSE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON \ -Wno-de

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-02 Thread tjoen
On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 10:56 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: >There's another issue I need to resolve: apparently webkitgtk > developers > switched to using cmake from the former compile; make; make install > sequence. The SBo script does not do cmake; I've written to the list > and > webkitgtk packa

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: Good luck. With webkitgtk you're probably busy for a couple of hours... Geert, Sigh. Yes. It's a huge library. On the laptop with the Atom processor it took about 24 hours to build; took about 7 hours on this dual-core AMD II processor. There's a

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 19:25:37 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: > > I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages > > for > > icu installed ? > > Geert, > >Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each lib

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: I would expect that as well really. Are the proper development packages for icu installed ? Geert, Slackware does not do separate dev packages. Everything's in each library package. Oh, wait! The 2.6 branch of gnucash is not even explicitly declar

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Sure. In a couple of minutes. Had to play with the number of lines in each of three separate files to get the gzipped size < 3600 bytes. Concatenate the three parts in sequence to get the full file. Rich __

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 18:42:50 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: > > What do you mean with "hardcoded" ? Gnucash doesn't hardcode it as far as > > I > > know. Is it the slackware build script that does ? If so that one should > > be > > fixed. > > Geert, >

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 1, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: > >> worked for me too try the direct link? >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=GnuCash > > Maf., > > That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I needed

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: Do you still have the older version of GnuCash installed? If so you'll need to remove it. John, No. Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuca

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Geert Janssens wrote: What do you mean with "hardcoded" ? Gnucash doesn't hardcode it as far as I know. Is it the slackware build script that does ? If so that one should be fixed. Geert, I saw that in 2.6.16 and assumed it represented the library version on the system

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On vrijdag 1 september 2017 18:31:56 CEST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: > > worked for me too try the direct link? > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=GnuCash > > Maf., > >That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: What URL is showing the error? Derek, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla What is the exact error message? Unable to connect. Regards, Rich ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org ht

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Maf. King wrote: worked for me too try the direct link? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=GnuCash Maf., That worked for me. While I have (had?) a bugzilla account, I needed to create one for gnome's version. I wrote a detailed description and

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, On Fri, September 1, 2017 11:33 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: > >> It worked for me just now. > > John, > >Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and > chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot > ac

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Maf. King
On Friday, 1 September 2017 16:33:02 BST Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: > > It worked for me just now. > > John, > >Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and > chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot > a

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, John Ralls wrote: It worked for me just now. John, Must be something upstream from me. I've tried firefox-52.3.0esr and chromium-60.0.3112.78 on two different machines and both tell me I cannot access the gnucash wiki bug reports page. I can attach the small file to a

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 1, 2017, at 6:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > >>> Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. >> >> Will do. > > Clicking the 'bug reports' link on the left side of the gnucash.org home > page produces a '404 page

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. Clicking the 'bug reports' link on the left side of the gnucash.org home page produces a '404 page not found' error. Will try again later. Rich ___

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: Guild is a guile script file that compiles scheme files into byte code. John, Thanks for that lesson. Rather than sending the build log, open a bug and attach the build log. Will do. But first, have you consulted the Slackware lists/fora to see

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 31, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: > >> Please remember to copy the list on all replies. > > John, > > Thought I had as that's my normal practice; I apologize for missing this > time. > >> It's not reporting a dependency failure, a

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: May I send the build log (200k) so someone who knows guile well might see the source of the error? Before I do so I'm creating a build.log on the 32-bit system which builds 2.6.17 and will then run 'diff -y' on the two files. That ought to show where

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: Please remember to copy the list on all replies. John, Thought I had as that's my normal practice; I apologize for missing this time. It's not reporting a dependency failure, at least not here. I read the errors as internal to the gnucash build p

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 31, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: > >> There are some dependency-tree problems with CMake builds, so if that's >> what you're doing just keep re-running make until the build completes. > > John, > > Trying the plain configure; make;

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, John Ralls wrote: There are some dependency-tree problems with CMake builds, so if that's what you're doing just keep re-running make until the build completes. John, I've run into this on a couple of other applications that now use CMake. Does Slackware not provide G

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread John Ralls
> On Aug 31, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Since the beginning of this year I've depended on gnucash for business and > personal bookkeeping. Version 2.6.16 was installed on my desktop > server/workstation which was running Slackware-14.1/32-bit. Two weeks ago I > upgraded the dist

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-08-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: Sure enough, that file's not there. Forgot to provide the gnucash dependents install here: gnucash-2.6.17 | +-goffice0.8-0.8.17 | +-libgnomecanvas-2.30.3 | +-libofx-0.9.11 | +-webkitgtk-2.4.11 | +-libwebp-0.5.2 Rich _

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825 (Edoardo Tirtarahardja)

2017-08-09 Thread Alex Aycinena
Edo, On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Edoardo Tirtarahardja wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I don't have any idea what is the TXF code for those lines. I've googled > and the TurboTax is no longer posting the TXF specification. I can't find > any in the internet. > > Surely some one knows how to get the la

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825 (Edoardo Tirtarahardja)

2017-08-09 Thread Edoardo Tirtarahardja
Hi Alex, I don't have any idea what is the TXF code for those lines. I've googled and the TurboTax is no longer posting the TXF specification. I can't find any in the internet. Surely some one knows how to get the latest TXF spec. //Edo On 2017-08-09 15:03, Alex Aycinena wrote: > > >

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825

2017-08-09 Thread Greg Feneis
Let's wait and see if we can get one of the developers (who are volunteers) to respond to this issue on this email list. Then, perhaps they'll ask you to file a bug report. In which case, fixing this issue will get in the queue of fixes to be made. 😉 On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Edoardo Tir

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825 (Edoardo Tirtarahardja)

2017-08-09 Thread Alex Aycinena
> > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Edoardo Tirtarahardja > To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 11:59:51 -0400 > Subject: Help on US Tax Form 8825 > Why GNU Cash can't classify an expenses to be reported in US Federal Tax > >From 8825 Line 14 (Deprecia

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825

2017-08-09 Thread Edoardo Tirtarahardja
Thx for the response, but that doesn't really help me. My goal is to have this to be included. I'm not familiar how to open a ticket to GNU Cash developer to have this fixed. On 2017-08-09 12:18, David Carlson wrote: > It is curious that this form is not in the list. For tax related accounts > th

Re: Help on US Tax Form 8825

2017-08-09 Thread David Carlson
It is curious that this form is not in the list. For tax related accounts that cannot be assigned to the proper form you could just mark the account as tax related without the form assignment, and it will be in the report where you will at least be reminded to include it in your filing. David C

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Joe Farrell via gnucash-user
Thanks to all who helped On Sunday, July 9, 2017, 5:04:04 PM GMT+10, Colin Law wrote: On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user wrote: > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to import, but, I > cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any ideas? You have

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Joe Farrell via gnucash-user
Thank you. On Sunday, July 9, 2017, 5:14:40 PM GMT+10, Liz wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 08:03:33 +0100 Colin Law wrote: > On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to > > import, but, I cannot find a Qif file in

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Liz
On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 08:03:33 +0100 Colin Law wrote: > On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to > > import, but, I cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any > > ideas? > > You have to export a QIF fi

Re: Help

2017-07-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 July 2017 at 02:48, Joe Farrell via gnucash-user wrote: > I have just downloaded GNUCash and want to open my Quicken to import, but, I > cannot find a Qif file in all of my documents.Any ideas? You have to export a QIF file from within quicken. Colin ___