[Bug 628734] Get Quotes at Startup Option

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 14 17:50:15 EDT 2010


Okay. Thanks for the quick reply.

--- On Tue, 9/14/10, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:

> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 628734] Get Quotes at Startup Option
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "devel gnucash" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 2:43 PM
> 
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:37 PM, David T. wrote:
> 
> > I guess this question is directed mostly to John
> Ralls:
> > 
> > If I wanted to adopt Frank's suggestion of a shell
> script for this, how might I do it in the Mac OS X realm
> that you have packaged? 
> > 
> > In a terminal window, I tried:
> > dhtmbp:~ david$
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> --add-price-quotes
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.15
> > Abort trap
> > 
> > OS X also gave me an application crash.
> > 
> > Then I tried:
> > dhtmbp:~ david$
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> --add-price-quotes=/Volumes/Records/Financials/My\ Accounts
> > /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line
> 130: [: too many arguments
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.15
> > Abort trap
> > 
> > With another system crash.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 
> No, not really. I tried it out and found that it works fine
> in the original build destination directory, and crashes
> when done with the bundle.
> 
> In src/bin/gnucash-bin.c, in inner_main_get_price_quotes,
> is the snippet:
>    /* Don't load the modules since the
> stylesheet module crashes if the 
>       GUI is not initialized */
> #ifdef PRICE_QUOTES_NEED_MODULES 
>    load_gnucash_modules();
> #endif
> 
> And indeed, that's where it's crashing. Why is matter for a
> debugging session, which I don't really have time to do just
> now. I've opened https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629712 to
> keep track of it.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 


      


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