The gnucash binary now removed from CVS - (and config issues)

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
21 Nov 2001 14:06:41 -0500


I think this would work..  (I had to do something like this to
work around the 'sed' problem on Solaris ;)

-derek

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> I had wanted gnucash-env to be general-purpose, but it looks like
> that's not feasible, or perhaps it alone isn't enough.  I'd wanted you
> to be able to say
> 
>   gnucash-env cmd arg1 arg2 ...
> 
> but this won't work where guile's considered (either if used directly
> as "cmd", or as a sub command of cmd).
> 
> Actually, wait a minute.  I wonder if this is TOO EVIL(TM).  What if,
> at install time we installed ${GNC_SHAREDIR}/override-script/guile
> which just did this:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   exec @-GUILE-@ "$@"
> 
> and then gnucash-env put ${GNC_SHAREDIR}/script/guile at the head of
> the PATH.  This seems to fix nearly all the problems I can think of.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Browning
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