[GNC-dev] Gnucash built from git doesn't start

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 6:55 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> I am curious as to what problems you have encountered installing to
> /usr/local and on what Linux distributions?  I have never had any problem
> installing there in Linux Mint 17, 18, 19 which presumably also includes the
> Ubuntu and Debian systems they are derived from but don't know about other
> distributions.  According to the Linux File Heirarchy standard this is where
> user software built from source should be installed.  The "sudo make
> install" currently installs the libraries, share and config files in the
> expected locations as follows:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/gnucash           main application
> /usr/local/etc/gnucash/environment   
> /usr/local/include/gnucash     gnucash heaader files
> /usr/local/lib/gnucash            gnucash libraries
> /usr/local/lib                           a few libraries associated with
> libgnc-backend, libgnc-core-utils, libgnc-gnome, libgnc-module 
>                                          and libgwengui-gtk3
> /usr/share/gnucash
> 
> Apart from requiring sudo privileges I have never encountered any problems
> installing there since I started using GnuCash in 2010.

David,

See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/GNUInstallDirs.html for what cmake does with special case prefixes. It generally affects just <prefix>/etc/gnucash/environment.

Regards,
John Ralls