Gnucash Help: URL not found

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

You should have CC'd gnucash-user for this message....

John Zoetebier <john.zoetebier at transparent.co.nz> writes:

> On 08 Jul 2003 18:55:40 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > John Zoetebier <john.zoetebier at transparent.co.nz> writes:
> >
> >> Still no luck with this package.
> >> I ran ./configure, make, make install.
> >> However nothing show up in help.
> >> Could it be that the configure script assumes a particular default
> >> folder which is different for /opt/gnome/gnucash ?
> >
> > Uh, yea..  All packages assume a default of /usr/local unless you
> > specify a --prefix during configure.
> 
> Finally :)
> For anybody else wanting to install help on SuSE 8.2
> - extract gnucash-docs TAR file somewhere like
> ~/download/gnucash-docs-
> 1.8.1
> - Change folder to ~/download/gnucash-docs-1.8.1
> - install any missing packages like scroll-keeper
> - ./configure /opt/gnome
> - make
> - su to root
> - make install

Well, this is more than SuSE users, but OTOH SuSE should be distributing
a gnucash-docs RPM anyways!

> I have no idea what kind of end-user the developers have in mind, but
> for the average end-user the beforementioned procedure is a tick too
> complicated for my taste.
> Maybe end-users on other continents are infinitisimally smarter than
> in New Zealand ;)

Maybe!  OTOH are first-line "end users" are the distributions.  We
expect the Red Hat's, SuSE's, Mandrakes, and Debians of the world to
distribute the code.  Beyond that, we expect users who want to
"upgrade" beyond their distribution to at least be able to run
"./configure --help" to figure out how to use "--prefix"...  Using
--prefix is just standard operating procedure, so, yes, I expect
someone who is compiling software to at least know how to use
configure.

I'm glad you finally got it working....

> John Zoetebier
> Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz

-derek

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