Migration to gnucash as guile script has begun.

[Derek Atkins]

I would hate not having a binary available for testing and
development... I didn't think you could run 'gdb' on a shell script?
Or does this shell script just set up a bunch of environment variables
and then call out to some other application (i.e. guile)?

-derek

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> I just finished committing the result of some mildly agonizing time
> spent fighting with libtool, ldso, guile, missing/mutual dependencies,
> and other friends.
> 
> src/gnucash.sh is now a simple guile script that should completely
> replicate the behavior of the main gnucash binary -- let me know where
> it doesn't.  It gets placed into the install tree in the bin
> directory; please give it a try.  Eventually, probably soon,
> gnucash.sh will completely replace the current gnucash binary, but I
> wanted to get it out for a little testing first.
> 
> I consider this a first rough pass, and there are quite a number of
> things that already need cleaning up, but it's still kinda amusing.  I
> will begin overhauling the whole startup process shortly, with a keen
> eye on simplification.
> 
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> Rob Browning
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