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Bug 157673 - OFX import fails with libofx 0.7.0
OFX import fails with libofx 0.7.0
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Import - Other
1.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Benoit Grégoire
Benoit Grégoire
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-08 17:49 UTC by David Veldhuizen
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:48 UTC
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Description David Veldhuizen 2004-11-08 17:49:11 UTC 
Upgrade to libofx 0.7.0 and gnucash 1.8.9. On OFX import the following error is
reported:

LibOFX ERROR: ofx_proc_file():No input file specified
(Above message occured on Line 4294967295, Column 4294967295)

Downgrading to gcc 3.3, libofx 0.6.6 solves the problem.
Comment 1 David Veldhuizen 2004-11-09 12:28:02 UTC 
The user experience, BTW, is that the import dialog appears, but is entirely
empty of transactions.
Comment 2 Christian Stimming 2004-11-10 10:33:18 UTC 
Err... the support for libofx-0.7.0 has been added to gnucash in October'04,
which means that gnucash-1.8.9 doesn't support libofx-0.7 but only libofx-0.6.x.
This should change once gnucash-1.8.10 is out, which is expected for this
weekend. There is an inofficial pre-release available on
http://www.tu-harburg.de/~et2cs/en/gnucash-1.8.10pre1.tar.gz -- could you try
whether this version works with libofx-0.7? It should. The gnucash-1.8.9 code
unfortunately can't deal with libofx-0.7 because gnucash-1.8.9 was released much
earlier than libofx-0.7.
Comment 3 Derek Atkins 2004-12-04 22:18:10 UTC 
I think the real problem is that libofx-0.7 didn't change the SOname of the
library but did change the API in a non backwards-compatible way.  Can
libofx-0.6.x and libofx-0.7 co-exist?
Comment 4 Benoit Grégoire 2004-12-05 19:27:07 UTC 
Well, that's not it, while libofx did indeed change to the libtool convention
between libofx 0.6.6 and 0.7.0, libofx 0.6.6 is libofx.so.0.0.6 and libofx 0.7
is libofx.so.1.0.0

The problem is that prior to the upcoming gnucash 1.8.10, there was no detection
in gnucash of the libofx version.   Unfortunately, and purely by coincidence,
while libofx 0.7.0 is neither source nor binary compatible with it's
predecessor, because of the way callbacks used to be implemented, gnucash will
actually compile (but not run against it) against it.  This has all been fixed
in 1.8.10 by Christian Stimmings, but unfortunately there is nothing we can do
for earlier versions.
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:48:03 UTC 
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