[RFC Patch] Invert the program entry point

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

> Glad to hear it.  Yeah, a true gnucash executable should play nicer
> with gprof, and (more importantly for me) also gdb.

Yea, debugging gnucash with gdb can be a major PitA.  unfortunately
it's still hard, because gdb dosn't debug scheme.  But yea, gnucash
as a C app is easier to run.  You don't have to do:

gdb /usr/bin/guile
...
gdb> run -e main -s /opt/gnucash-g2/libexec/overrides/gnucash 
--g-fatal-warnings

>>
>> > BTW, I think that one consequence of this change would be that
>> > it would become much easier to move the entire start-up sequence from
>> > guile to C.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Well then, are there any user-visible differences between the
> `gnucash-test` program that this patch installs and the `gnucash`
> script that (eventually) calls guile?
>
> I intend to commit it as installing `gnucash-test`, and hopefully a
> few more people will try it out.  If nobody screams, how would you
> feel about installing it as `gnucash` instead of `gnucash-test`?

I say "just make the switch now".  Don't bother with the gnucash-test
stage.  Just make "gnucash" do it now and install it this way now.

-derek

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