KMyMoney 4.8.5 build fails with alkimia problem

[Jack]

On 6/22/20 11:22 AM, David Houlden wrote:
> 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.

My error with suggesting 5.1, as for some  reason I thought you had 
successfully compiled from the 5.0 branch.  I clearly misread 
something.  At this point, my personal suggestion is that it's time to 
seriously consider upgrading your slackware version.  You are correct 
that KMM >=5.0 requires KDE Frameworks (KF5) and not kdelibs4.

I'm a bit surprised you got 4.8 successfully compiled with that new 
libalkimia, and I wonder if that is the cause of any of the bugs you 
see, but don't really know, one way or the other.  At this point, Ralf 
Habacker is the only person I know of still working on the 4.8 branch, 
and he is likely the only one to make suggestions on price updates.  
There have been numerous changes in that area since 5.0, but he as also 
made some changes to 4.8.x. I'm curious what you mean by all the ways 
have disappeared.  I don't think anything in that area was explicitly 
removed, so I'd recheck your cmake settings to confirm you've enabled 
everything appropriate.

Jack