Building GnuCash on MacOSX Lion

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 23, 2012 7:09:04 AM -0800 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
wrote:

>
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 12:05 AM, Reuben Cummings wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> No, WebKit has nothing to do with your crash, which is probably a
>>> dbus permissions issue. Are you trying to start gnucash directly
>>> instead of using gnucash-launcher?
>>
>> Yes, via the command line with
>>
>> gnucash
>>
>> I didn't make a launcher
>
> That's your problem. You want to say
>
> gnucash-launcher
>
> which is a shell script that starts up dbus-daemon before starting
> gnucash. You don't have to do anything to build it; it's built and
> installed by the Makefiles.
>
> I see that I forgot to update the Wiki page when we changed the
> environment setup so that gnucash-launcher was necessary on Macs.
> I've just fixed that as well as making it more explicit that gtkhtml
> is just for Tiger.

If you build it with MacPorts and follow the instructions when MacPorts 
installs dbus, you shouldn't need to use a launcher script.  You also 
don't get multiple dbus processes that way.  These comments apply at 
least to the X11 version of Gnucash.  I don't use the Aqua version, but 
MacPorts should be able to build that too and it probably works the 
same way.

          Mike