Installing GnuCash 2.0 on Mac OS X

[Rudye McGlothlin]

Everyone,

After several weeks of brooding over it, and a few intense evenings 
trying everything that I could think of, I have gotten GnuCash 2.0 
compiled on my PowerBook!  Everything seems to be working, and I want to 
thank the developers for the phenomenal effort.  Thank you!

I started, of course, with these instructions... 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSXInstallation but there were a few 
pieces of info missing or that my limited experience couldn't provide.  
So here is my errata.  If you think its worthwhile, I'll make an effort 
to add to the wiki.  Let me know if I should.

1.  The first issue I encountered was that the manually downloaded 
g-wrap-1.9.6 couldn't find guile16 that fink installed.  The solution is 
further in the instructions.  Executing this line:

$ export PATH=/sw/share/guile/1.6/scripts/binoverride:$PATH

before doing the g-wrap ./configure solves it.  I recommend that step be 
moved up to before the g-wrap section.

2.  There is no information here about where g-wrap needs to be.  Mine 
ended up in /sw/etc .  Frankly, I don't know how.  It became clear that 
it needs to be in /sw/bin .  At least, g-wrap.configure must be in 
/sw/bin .  I tried several ways to get g-wrap to compile into that 
directory (--prefix didn't work), but I finally just manually moved all 
the g-wrap files.

3.  GnuCash needed more information about the location of g-wrap/guile.  
I had to change the $PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to include the 
location of /g-wrap-1.9.6/guile.  In my case I did this: export 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/bin/g-wrap-1.9.6/guile:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH .

4.  That took care of getting GnuCash to compile.  Note, however, that 
the instructions say that the line:

./autogen.sh ; ./configure --with-g-wrap-prefix=/sw 
--enable-compile-warnings ; make ; sudo make install

will install in the /usr/local directory.  This wasn't the case on my 
computer.  GnuCash installed right were it was... 
~/Documents/src/gnuCash/src/bin/gnucash .  I suppose there is someway to 
erase it and force it to compile in the right place, but I don't think 
I'm up to it.

Regards,
Rudye