dbus-launch in MacOSX build

Mike Alexander mta at umich.edu
Tue Apr 6 00:52:14 EDT 2010


--On April 5, 2010 7:47:05 PM -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
wrote:

> Be surprised. The stand-alone bundle needs to explicitly run
> dbus-launcher.
>
> You're probably using Fink or MacPorts for your Gnucash-on-X11, and
> they both take care of the dbus setup for you by providing a full
> Linux-like environment. That's probably equally true of MacPorts
> built with quartz.

I was thinking of the quartz variant of the MacPorts build, not your 
stand alone bundle.  However I'm still a little surprised, I thought 
that the dbus client would launch the dbus session server if necessary. 
However, dbus is complicated enough that nothing about it surprises me 
too much.

          Mike



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