Build and run in separate directory

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Feb 8 09:45:40 EST 2006


I'm not sure what SVN revision you're trying, but you can very well
/build/ gnucash in another build directory.  I admit that I haven't
tried running it out of a separate build directory.

-derek

Quoting Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu>:

> If you try to build gnucash in a directory other than the source 
> directory you get a couple of build errors.  If you try to run from 
> that directory, it doesn't work quite right either.  It is probably 
> better to use an lndir directory for building, but if you don't want 
> to do this, the attached patch fixes some of the problems related to 
> building and running in a separate directory.  It still uses some 
> things from the install tree when running from the build directory, 
> and won't work right if you've never installed it, but these patches 
> help some.  I'm sending them here since I didn't think this was worth 
> a bug report.
>
> -- 
> Mike Alexander           mta at umich.edu
> Ann Arbor, MI            PGP key ID: BEA343A6
>



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