amend transactions programmatically

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists at googlemail.com>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The only problem with amending the wiki it is that I haven't 
>>> actually used this whereas I have done what I have described in the 
>>> wiki. Maybe I should add a caveat somewhere rather than put it in 
>>> the main instruction list?
>>
>> Nah.  Just add the --prefix=/opt/gnucash and be done with it.
>>
> If I was reading it I'd want to know it worked as it was written.
>
> I am puzzled by one aspect. How does the menu system find the binary 
> and  docs? I seem to remember that when I compiled it I had to run 
> the binary from its location, but on reboot it magically appeared in 
> the Gnome menus. If I add the --prefix to install in 
> /opt/gnucash-2.2.4 will this still happen?

No.  Gnome just happens to look in /usr/local by default.  It wouldn't
know to look in /opt/gnucash.  But that only means you need to run
it by hand, which isn't that bad if you're building it yourself.

> Also do I install the docs with
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash-docs-2.2.0
> which is a separate location and how will gnucash find these?

No, you want to put the docs into the same --prefix

> Would be pleased if you would take a look and see if this is a problem.
>
> Russell

-derek

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