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From: John A. Sullivan III on 27 Mar 2010 21:00 On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 13:09 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > <snip>> > Compiling 2.2.9 from source works without installing the libraries from > Squeeze. Is this something that should be passed along to backports? > How is that done? Thanks - John I was able to build an installable .deb package for 2.2.9 for Lenny with the problematic lenny-backport libraries. This is what I did (adapted from our internal documentation): GnuCash 2.2.6 seg faults on Lenny when the Lenny-Backports are used for OpenOffice and IceWeasel. This is probably due to the newer libglib2. We cannot simply install 2.2.9 from Squeeze or Sid as it has many dependencies that would seem dangerous to bring into Lenny. Thus, we will recompile the 2.2.9 deb for Lenny. The procedure is as follows. Some of the steps need to be done as root Install the needed packages for building apt-get -t lenny-backports install devscripts build-essential Edit /etc/apt/sources.list by adding a Lenny Backports source repository such as the following: deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free Make apt aware of the repository: apt-get update Other steps MUST not be done by root so we need another user console to do the following steps. We will need the 2.2.6 source deb to have all the various settings and options used by debian. These will be in the debian directory and is really all we need from the source deb. We will store this in gnucash-2.2.6 We will also need the 2.2.9 source tarball. We will store this in gnucash which will become the deb build directory mkdir /data/Tech/download/gnucash mkdir /data/Tech/download/gnucash-2.2.6 cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash-2.2.6 apt-get -t lenny-backports source gnucash gnucash-common We need to install dependencies and this must be done as root so return to the root console and do: cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash-2.2.6 apt-get -t lenny-backports build-dep gnucash gnucash-common Return to the user console cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash wget http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2 tar jfvx gnucash-2.2.9.tar.bz2 mv gnucash{-,_}2.2.9.tar.bz2 mv gnucash_2.2.9{,.orig}.tar.bz2 - This is the name format debuild will expect cd gnucash-2.2.9 cp -r ../../gnucash-2.2.6/gnucash-2.2.6/debian ./ cd debian The changelog is more than information; it is critical for debuild processing. Add something similar to the following at the top (the syntax is very fussy) gnucash (2.2.9-0) stable; urgency=high * 2.2.6 segfaults with libglib from lenny-backports -- John Sullivan <jsullivan(a)pacifera.com> Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:18:00 -0500 Edit the control file and edit the two Replaces lines so they read: Replaces: gnucash-common (<< 2.2.6-3) Replaces: gnucash (<< 2.2.6-3) Edit the files file so it reads: gnucash-common_2.2.9-0_all.deb gnome optional gnucash_2.2.9-0_amd64.deb gnome optional debuild will complain about the -0 but I do not want to give it -1 in case the real 2.2.9 package is -1 when it is released. cd .. debuild -us -uc cd .. The two .deb files should be in this directory and can be installed where needed I really don't know what I am doing so there might be plenty of mistakes in the above but hope it is useful to someone facing the same problem - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1269737612.9428.20.camel(a)Family.pacifera.com |