GNU Cash Install Issues on MAC OS 10.5 Leopard

[David Reiser]

On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Mark Manning wrote:

> Hi Guys,  Thanks very much for the help.   I did some searching  
> around with finder and found gnucash.exec in the /sw/bin directory.   
> If you click on this file it starts GNU Cash without having to mess  
> with a term window or shell profile.  I'm guessing that the OS takes  
> care of all that.
>
> Let me know if you think this will lead to disaster.
>
> The other question I have is if I can now copy the entire compiled  
> GNUCash and just load it onto another MAC without having to go  
> through all the download and compile process.  Does anyone know what  
> has to be copied?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.


Not counting the files that gnucash itself creates during the build,  
there are in excess of 150 supporting files/libraries that you would  
have to move to the right place (same /sw hierarchy). It might even be  
more like 500 files, since the 150+ is just the number of fink  
packages that have to be installed before gnucash can be built. And  
each of those packages is probably more than one file. Some of them,  
of course, are only needed during the build. But I'd still guess  
there's more than one file per package required at runtime. Needless  
to say, I don't know all the files that would have to be copied.

Welcome to the blessing and the curse of open source software. Someday  
there may be a mac installable image where all those support files get  
rolled into the app. But we're not there, and it would be a lot of work.

Dave
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David Reiser
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