[Kmymoney-devel] Build Problem

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Friday 30 December 2011 11:50:19 Allan wrote:

> Thank you, my friends, and compliments of the season.
> 
> On 30/12/11 07:59, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > on Friday 30 December 2011 04:47:55 Jack wrote:
> >> On 2011.12.29 22:31, Allan wrote:
> >>> I had to re-install my system and am having build problems.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm getting
> >>> "
> >>> aga at giga:~/Git/kmymoney/build>  make
> >>> 
> >>> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:53 (STRING):
> >>>    string sub-command SUBSTRING requires four arguments."
> >>> 
> >>> It looks like the top level CMakeLists.txt, which has
> >>> "
> >>> STRING(SUBSTRING ${BRANCH} 0 10 BRANCH)  "
> >>> 
> >>> To me, that seems to have four arguments, but then I know nothing.
> >>> 
> >>> Any clues, anyone, please?  I've a few kmm builds and they all give
> >>> this error.
> >>> 
> >>> Oh, in case my cmake has upgraded, it's at 2.8.6-2.1.2 which doesn't
> >>> seem that new.
> >> 
> >> I'm also on 2.8.6 (both Gentoo and Arch) and I see the same line, and
> >> have not had any compile issues.  First thing to check is to be sure
> >> whether the error is generated by make or by cmake itself (I suspect
> >> the latter).  You could try "ccmake ." while in the build directory,
> >> then hitting "c" for configure, then "g" for generate to see if either
> >> of those gives the error.
> >> 
> >> Could there be something funny about the value of BRANCH before that
> >> line?
> > 
> > That seems to be the case. What is the output of the following command:
> >    git log -1 | head -n 1
> 
> Well, once I had installed git (ahem, well it was very very late by this
> time!), I got a good response from the above, and, lo and behold, make
> made better progress.
> 
> I hadn't expected to be using git at that stage, just doing a build,
> but, there you go.

Well, you checked out the repository before (CMake checks for a .git 
directory), so git must have been there before.


> > I see
> > 
> >    commit 40f784b58a13c198a2568d0e8f756b4d4e652591
> > 
> > right now.
> > 
> >> If it's empty, that could cause cmake to see only three
> >> arguments, although I don't see how it could happen.
> > 
> > Well, if the response to the above command is empty.
> 
> Now, to alkimia/.

Which has a similar procedure ... well, it should but still contains 
references to svn. I'll put that on my todo list.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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