Building gnucash-1.9 from svn on OS X

[David Reiser]

On May 12, 2006, at 6:20 AM, Adrian Simmons wrote:

> Kevin Broderick wrote:
>> I've got it working and I added a wiki page detailing how I did it  
>> <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation>.
> Thanks for taking the time to write this up Kevin, I've been  
> wanting to try myself but didn't feel I had the time to figure out  
> all the hoops.
>
> A few questions though. Are you swapping back and forth between 1.8  
> and 1.9 or just sticking with 1.9?

It is possible to go back and forth, but there are some potential  
problems. I avoided them by having a whole second fink /sw tree  
without conflicting dependencies. Dave Vasilevsky (one of the fink  
gurus) has a script that lets you switch among multiple fink installs  
in a couple seconds. It requires a lot of disk space because you need  
matching gnome dependency installs for any tree that must support  
running some version of gnucash.

I think that for Kevin's install route, you might be able to run both  
versions as long as your 1.9 install is in a directory that is not in  
your path. But fink's normal installation puts the fink tree first in  
your path, so there is a real possibility that gnucash 1.8 libraries  
may conflict with 1.9 calls. In that case, you may be able to run 1.9  
by using fink to remove gnucash 1.8.11 while you need 1.9. Then  
reinstall 1.8.11 when you need to go back (remember that the 1.9  
install location should NOT appear in your PATH variable). It takes  
less than 2 minutes for either the remove or the reinstall in fink.

>
> What strategies can I use to move back and forth between the two  
> versions - the data files I can handle (make backups, specify a  
> separate version when launching gnucash etc), it's gnucash that  
> worries me.

I think it's only the possible conflicting libraries. As above, 'fink  
remove gnucash' while you use 1.9 and 'fink reinstall gnucash' when  
you need 1.8 has a good chance of working, as long as the 1.9 install  
locations are not in your PATH.


>
> Once 1.9 is compiled and installed in /usr/local can I fink  
> reinstall gnucash 1.8 and just launch them from their respective  
> locations?

I think /usr/local ends up in your path by default. I'd suggest /opt  
(have to create the directory) or ~/usr as Kevin did.

>
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> e-mail <mailto:adrinux at perlucida.com>

Dave
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