amend transactions programmatically

[Russell Gadd]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists at googlemail.com>:
> 
>> Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists at googlemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> For now, if anyone requests it, I'd rather post the instructions here
>>>> and if folks think it useful I would endeavour to find out how to add
>>>> them to the Debian wiki, never having done this sort of thing before.
>>>
>>> You should still just put it on the wiki.  Make a new section
>>> on that page.  All you need to do is create an account and then
>>> click "Edit".
>>>
>>>> Russell
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>> Ok I give in. Look at this page and let me have any comments.
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian
> 
> My only suggestion is that I'd recommend you use a --prefix during
> configure to make it easier to remove that version of gnucash later.
> Also, using --prefix will prevent "dirtying" /usr/local, and you can
> set it up so you don't need to 'sudo' to "make install"
> 
This is beyond me - I don't understand --prefix. Maybe people used to 
compiling can follow this?
Not sure why /usr/local shouldn't be dirtied. A cleaner solution would 
presumably do it properly and build a package.
I'm not fussed about using sudo, if someone is thinking of compiling 
some app is it not unreasonable to expect them to have some root access?
> Beyond that, looks fine.
> 
> Oh, one other question -- how is this different than, say,
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building  ??
The gnucash wiki instructions are more comprehensive and give more 
information but I think are aimed at a more experienced user level above 
my simple account of how to do it in Debian.

Example:
3. Look at available configure options

  ./configure --help

4. Run configure with the appropriate options; some example options 
might look as follows

  ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash \
     --enable-debug --enable-doxygen \
     --enable-error-on-warning --enable-compile-warnings \
     [--enable-ofx [...]]


In essence not really different, which is why I put at the top "Rather 
than building a Debian package I just used the instructions provided by 
Gnucash for any flavour of Linux. These notes are no more than 
confirmation that those instructions work."  Hopefully the two wikis 
complement each other.

Russell