Error installing gnu cash with +quartz

[David Evans]

On 6/5/14 2:21 PM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> Em 05/06/2014, à(s) 13:35, David Evans <devans at macports.org> escreveu:
>
>> On 6/5/14 3:18 AM, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>>> Em 04/06/2014, à(s) 23:51, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>> I’m trying to install gnucash by following the instructions here:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail
>>>>
>>>> According to them, it gnucash needs to use xquartz, so that’s what I’m using.
>>>>
>>>> However, after a long, long time, the installation stops with the message below. Isn’t it possible to install gnucash with xquartz anymore?
>>>>
>>>> ​It looks like not all of the variants are getting set appropriately in the dependencies (either that or some of the dependencies were already installed without the proper variants).  If I had to guess, I would say it's probably a subtle error with some of the MacPorts dependency trees.
>>>>
>>>> You can try rebuilding libcanberra with the +x11 variant and then try gnucash again.  This is the approach I've used in the past when I've gotten similar errors.  It sometimes takes a bit of prodding (basically doing this over and over for all unsatisfied dependencies until it works).
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jason M. Swails
>>>> BioMaPS,
>>>> Rutgers University
>>>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> I’m actually trying to build a non-x11, “native” osx build, so building with +x11 might not be the best way to go here. But I’ll keep that in mind in case it’s really needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Gustavo Seabra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Gustavo --
>>
>> I spent some time last night and this morning trying to work around
>> various issues regarding the build of gnucash with +quartz -x11 and was,
>> in the end, unsuccessful.  But I now see where some of the problems lie:
>>
>> First, the libcanberra error cited is a red herring.  libcanberra is a
>> dependency of yelp, which due to its current design requires X11, i.e.
>> the code uses direct X11 API with no quartz alternative, rather than
>> sticking to the GTK+ API.  This is also true for some of its
>> dependencies. The way to fix this is to remove gnucash's run time
>> dependency on yelp when building +quartz.
>>
>> Secondly, having gotten rid of the yelp/libcanberra issue, the build
>> fails because dependency webkit-gtk-2.0 currently fails to build with
>> the +quartz variant.  I thought this could be circumvented by using the
>> gtkhtml variant which claims to allow use of libgtkhtml3 as a substitute for
>> webkit-gtk but that variant is now obsolete -- the current version of
>> gnucash only accepts webkit-gtk, libgtkhtml3 support has been removed.
>>
>> So that's the sticking point for now.  Will look into the webkit-gtk
>> build issue.
>>
>> For now, your best bet is to build the X11 version of gnucash.
>>
>> Dave Evans
> In this case, I suppose just removing the extra lines in /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf, uninstalling and cleaning and reinstalling gnucash and then trying the port install command should be enough, right?
And make sure that any dependencies that are built +quartz or -x11 are
rebuilt as well.  Again ones to look for are
cairo +x11
pango +x11
gdk-pixbuf +x11
gtk2 +x11

After building if rev-upgrade complains about missing quartz related
pieces then delete and reinstall them as well.

Possibilities here are

goffice08
gwenhywfar4-gtk
aqbanking5-gtk

Good luck

Dave