make install issue when prefix contains a "+"

[Rainer Dorsch]

Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009 schrieb Christian Stimming:
> Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > > (gconftool-2:28251): GConf-WARNING **: Failed to load
> > > source "xml::/opt/gnucash-2.2.9+18037/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults":
> > >  Couldn't resolve address for configuration source: Bad address
> > > `xml::/opt/gnucash-2.2.9+18037/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults': `+' is an
> > > invalid character in a configuration storage address
> > >
> > > GConf-ERROR **: file gconftool.c: line 918 (main): assertion failed:
> > > (err == NULL)
> > > aborting...
> > >
> > > I think it is because my prefix /opt/gnucash-2.2.9+18037 contains a +
> > > character.
> >
> > I doubt this is a GnuCash bug. It appears GConf is throwing the error: it
> > doesn't like the + sign in your path. So if you want to report a bug, it
> > should be against GConf, not GnuCash. But perhaps it's best to ask the
> >  GConf people first about it, I don't know much of GConf myself.
> >
> > Meanwhile, you could work around this if you like by replacing the + sign
> >  with something else, like
> > /opt/gnucash-2.2.9_w_18037
>
> I agree - if this is a bug, it will be one in the context of gconf, but
> surely not gnucash. However, I think the reason for the "bug" is that gconf
> has additional constraints on the installation location. A "+" character in
> the filename can very well fall into that category - just as the win32
> filesystems disallow quite a number of additional characters which "seem
> allowed" on unix filesystem. I'd say we just have to accept gconf doesn't
> allow the "+" character in filenames and that's it.

Is that something configure in gnucash should check easily?

Thanks,
Rainer



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