Re: Problem building finance/gnucash

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 08:22:01PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Bulding on an amd64 host running NetBSD-9.99.90 built from sources
> updated on 2021-11-20 at 16:45:59 UTC.  Building in a chroot sandbox,
> (re-)created using pkgtools/mksandbox (so inititally empty).
> 
> All packages rebuilt from scratch using pkgsrc updated to just a few
> hours ago (2021-11-20 at 16:49:55 UTC)
> 
> 660+ other packages all built fine, but when I try to build gnucash
> it hangs at the following point:
> 
> ...
> [ 97%] Built target scm-deprecated-gnucash-report-job-report
> wrote `/tmp/pkgs/finance/gnucash/work.x86_64/gnucash-4.8/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/report/receipt.go'
> [ 97%] Built target scm-deprecated-gnucash-report-receipt
> wrote `/tmp/pkgs/finance/gnucash/work.x86_64/gnucash-4.8/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/report/receivables.go'
> wrote `/tmp/pkgs/finance/gnucash/work.x86_64/gnucash-4.8/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/report/standard-reports/cashflow-barchart.go'
> [ 97%] Built target scm-deprecated-gnucash-report-receivables
> [ 97%] Built target scm-deprecated-gnucash-report-standard-reports-cashflow-barchart
> wrote `/tmp/pkgs/finance/gnucash/work.x86_64/gnucash-4.8/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache/gnucash/deprecated/gnucash/report/customer-summary.go'
> [ 97%] Built target scm-deprecated-gnucash-report-customer-summary
> <hangs here, for hours!>

That's a bug in -current that mostly affects cmake (though I don't see
it there often) and guile.

The easiest workaround is to

pkill -STOP guile
pkill -CONT guile

and it should finish the build. (I sometimes need to do this 2 or 3
times.)
 Thomas