gnucash2 and opt style install

[Mark Johnson]

Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Mark Johnson <mrj001 at shaw.ca>:
>
>> I did:
>> make distclean
>> svn co http:/svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk
>
>
> I'm not sure why you did this..  If you already have a checkout then
> all you need is "svn update".  If you don't have a tree then you can
> checkout but then you don't need the distclean..


This would be because I am new to svn (though not to revision control, 
so shame on me).  However, the "co" was intelligent enough not to 
download stuff I already had up to date.

>>
>> This successfully installed.  So I tried setting the LIBRARY_PATH, 
>> running ldconfig, and redoing the make install with DESTDIR. This 
>> seems to have worked even though I set the LIBRARY_PATH incorrectly
>
>
> Did you still have the installation in /opt/gnucash-svn when you
> ran "make install DESTDIR=/tmp/gnucash"?

OOPS. Yes it was still there.  I'll have to try again, but don't have 
time at the moment.

>
>> (as though I had not selected --enable-opt-style-install). I used the 
>> DESTDIR install to create a Slackware package.  I confirmed that all 
>> the files that were in this package were also in the install done by 
>> "make install".  I did not install or test in any other way this 
>> package.  It does seem as though there is still a 
>> LIBRARY_PATH/DESTDIR issue.
>
>
> I suspect so..  Actually, it would be a libtool bug.

At least, I can work around it.

>
>> I changed to the directory /opt/gnucash-svn/bin and ran gnucash from 
>> there (the directory is not on my PATH).  I was able to create a few 
>> accounts, but when I tried to enter transactions, the numbers would 
>> disappear when I left the cells by either tabbing or pressing enter.  
>> When I selected "File-Save As", it allowed me to create a new 
>> directory in my home, I entered a file name and clicked OK. I got an 
>> error stating that it was unable to parse the URL; the URL being the 
>> path and file name to which I had selected saving the data.  Both 
>> these issues seem too obvious not to have been noticed.  Any ideas?
>
>
> Can you start a new thread with these issues?  Actually, these issues
> belong on -devel as they are specific g2 bugs.   Thanks.
>
I'll have to sign up for this list.  It will probably be late tomorrow 
before that happens.  Hopefully, I may have time to actually contribute 
something, even though we are moving soon.

Mark