finance/gnucash Help and Custom Reports broken after upgrade to 2.6.0

[Guido Falsi]

On 02/04/14 11:35, John Marshall wrote:
> On 01/02/2014 21:30, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 01/14/14 00:50, John Marshall wrote:
>>> [Please CC me as I am not subscribed to this list]
>
>>> After upgrading ports from the r339270 tree I have not been able to
>>> figure out how to access custom report templates (.scm files), or access
>>> the product Help. Everything works if I revert to backup packages from
>>> the previous versions.
>
>> I've been unable to reproduce the first problem you report with gnucash
>> 2.6.1, I was able to create a custom report and load it from config.user
>> without specifying a path, the scm file being in .gnucash too.
>
> Thank you. Knowing that it's still meant to work in ~/.gnucash helps:
> knowing that, I tried creating a new basic report and it worked fine for
> me too. After much pain I concluded that our existing custom reports
> were being silently ignored by GnuCash because they were attempting to
> load the apparently now obsolete business-utils module which was part of
> 2.4. Poking around in standard reports from 2.6 it looks like the
> app-utils module supersedes business-utils. I hadn't noticed anything
> about that in release notes and a silent failure doesn't give one much
> of a clue. However, problem solved.
>
>> For the second problem I upgraded and patched gnucash-docs too, and it
>> is now able to find the needed xml files.
>
> Thank you again. I applied your patch (the third from the PR) and the
> documentation is all behaving properly now.
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance and for maintaining this port.
>

Thank you very much for your tests.

kwm: Can you file a feedback to the PR with your approval so I can 
commit it?

Thank you in advance!

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Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>