KMyMoney 4.8.5 build fails with alkimia problem

[David Houlden]

On Sunday 21 June 2020 12:22:54 Jack wrote:
> On 6/21/20 12:15 PM, David Houlden wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 June 2020 11:16:58 Jack wrote:
> >> On 6/21/20 10:56 AM, David Houlden wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to build kmymoney 4.8.5 git HEAD. It fails in make with error "alkimia/alkonlinequote.h no such file or directory"
> >>>
> >>> This looks like an alkimia version problem. I have 5.0.0 and have not yet managed to build a later version on my slackware 14.2 system. 5.0.0 used to be sufficient until commit 6da0bad "Use alkimia provided online quotes support".
> >>>
> >>> Cmake did not show any version problem. It output "Found LibAlkimia: /usr/lib64/cmake/LibAlkimia/LibAlkimiaConfig.cmake (found version "5.0.0")"
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to use alkimia 5.0.0 now? Would it be possible to have an option whether to use alkimia's quotes support or use the old way?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> David
> >> Hello David,
> >>
> >> Is there any reason you're not using KMM 5.1?  (5.0 branch has been
> >> frozen, with current development in 5.1 branch, and 5.1 released.)
> >> 5.0.0 is also rather old for libalkimia.  My Gentoo system has 7.0.2 and
> >> my Artix Linux has 8.0.2.  I don't see an actual minimum libalkimia
> >> required by 4.8.5, but it does require <6.0.0.
> >>
> >> Jack
> >>
> > Hello Jack
> >
> > Simply because slackware is still on KDE4.
> >
> > You say 4.8.5 requires libalkimia <6.0.0 and I have 5.0.0 which should be ok shouldn't it? Anyway, in the meantime I have managed to build libalkimia 8.0.1. This has enabled me to build KMyMoney HEAD from git. I am now trying it out but first impressions are not good. More about that later maybe.
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
> Try building from git head of the 5.1 branch instead of the master 
> branch.  When we released 5.1, a lot of  new code was pushed into master 
> branch, and I don't think it is recommended yet for anything except 
> testing that new code.
> 
> While I would expect libalkimia 5.0.0 to work for KMM 4.8.5, I have not 
> tried it myself, so I don't know for sure.

I cannot use the 5.1 branch as I am still on KDE4. At least that is my understanding.
I now have libalkimia 8.0.1 installed and have built kmymoney from HEAD of the 4.8 branch. I will not be using it though. There are too many bugs.
Briefly-
On Home screen Assets and Liabilities Summary the decimal places of values are not aligned vertically. This happens on some reports too.

On Tags screen, if I select a tag no transactions are shown. A balance for the tag is however shown.

Same on Payees screen. Selecting a payee shows no transactions.

How do I update stock prices? All the ways I used to have which parsed web sites have disappeared.

Regards, David.