Hard-coded paths in 2.3.7?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

z33b0b at gmail.com writes:

> Hello GnuCash devs --
>
> I just recently downloaded 2.3.7 form SVN and compiled, and am getting
> things set up.  After compiling, I got clever and thought hey, I actually
> want this directory over in ~/bin instead of here in ~/dev, but then I
> promptly found things breaking after I moved the directory.
>
> First off, creating a symlink to the "gnucash" script in {GnuCash
> directory}/bin raises fun errors with gnucash-setup-env not being found.
>
[snip]
> This makes me wonder if a) moving the directory is the issue, or b) having
> renamed the directory from "gnucash" to "GnuCash" (to allow me to set a
> symlink in the same parent directory with the lower-case name) is the
> problem.  I just tried moving / renaming things back to the way they were
> when I compiled, and lo, it's working again.  Either way, it starts to sound
> a bit like paths are being hardcoded somewhere during compilation.
>
> Is this guess right?  If so, could / should paths be made relative instead
> of absolute?

They are both the issue.  You should set --prefix to where you want
the build to live.  If you want to change it you either need a symlink
for the whole tree, or you need to reconfigure and rebuild everything.

> Cheers,
>
> -- Eiríkr Útlendi

-derek

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