[Kmymoney-devel] Build Problem

[Allan]

On 30/12/11 11:45, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> 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.

Ah, yes, but that was before I had to re-install my system, leaving my 
/home partition intact.
It was just that I hadn't realised that git became involved at that 
stage.  We live and learn, eventually.
>
>
>>> 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.

That part went without hitch and all is now sweetness and light, apart 
from my current issue, that is.

Thanks again.

Allan