gnc-fq-dump isn't happy with Finance::Quote (Mac OS X, MacPorts)

[Jim DeLaHunt]

At 12:10 AM -0700 5/20/09, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>Hi, folks:
>
>I'm trying to install Finance::Quote per the instructions at 
>"8.6.3.1. Installing Finance::Quote":
><http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html#invest-stockprice-auto2>
....
>Then I checked the installation, with gnc-fq-dump. It wasn't happy:
>
>[Macintosh-4:/opt/local/bin] jdlh% gnc-fq-dump
>/opt/local/bin/gnc-fq-dump cannot find all the Perl modules needed to run.
>You need to install the following Perl modules:
>   Finance::Quote
>   HTML::TableExtract
>   Crypt::SSLeay
>   Date::Manip
>Use your system's package manager to install them,
>or run 'gnc-fq-update' as root.

And the answer appears to be: a bug in gnc-fq-update as supplied in 
the MacPorts version of gnucash. It invokes Apple's copy of perl, 
with Apple's libraries. The other gnc-fq-* tools invoke the Perl and 
libraries installed by MacPorts.

% head -1 gnc-fq-*
==> gnc-fq-check <==
#!/opt/local/bin/perl -w

==> gnc-fq-dump <==
#!/usr/bin/perl

==> gnc-fq-helper <==
#!/opt/local/bin/perl -w

==> gnc-fq-update <==
#!/opt/local/bin/perl -w

So, I patched gnc-fq-dump to make its first line
   #!/opt/local/bin/perl -w
instead of
   #!/usr/bin/perl

Now gnc-fq-dump is happy.

I'll file a MacPorts bug report against gnucash about this.
    --Jim

At 12:10 AM -0700 5/20/09, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>Hi, folks:
>
>I'm trying to install Finance::Quote per the instructions at 
>"8.6.3.1. Installing Finance::Quote":
><http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html#invest-stockprice-auto2>
>
>I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.7, and my gnucash and much other software was 
>installed via MacPorts. My GnuCash is at 2.2.9, and is the Quartz 
>native build (not X11).
>
>I connected to the bin directory containing gnucash, which was 
>/opt/local/bin .
>On running "sudo gnc-fq-update", and telling it that yes, I wanted 
>it to do automatic configuration, it gave many lines of output.  It 
>seemed to be installing everything it wanted.
>
>Then I checked the installation, with gnc-fq-dump. It wasn't happy:
>
>[Macintosh-4:/opt/local/bin] jdlh% gnc-fq-dump
>/opt/local/bin/gnc-fq-dump cannot find all the Perl modules needed to run.
>You need to install the following Perl modules:
>   Finance::Quote
>   HTML::TableExtract
>   Crypt::SSLeay
>   Date::Manip
>Use your system's package manager to install them,
>or run 'gnc-fq-update' as root.
>
>Running "sudo gnc-fq-update" showed that gnc-fq-update was happy:
>
>[Macintosh-4:/opt/local/bin] jdlh% sudo gnc-fq-update
>Password:
>CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.19)
>Going to read /Users/jdlh/.cpan/Metadata
>   Database was generated on Tue, 19 May 2009 23:26:58 GMT
>LWP is up to date (5.826).
>Date::Manip is up to date (5.54).
>HTML::Parser is up to date (3.60).
>HTML::TableExtract is up to date (2.10).
>Crypt::SSLeay is up to date (0.57).
>Finance::Quote is up to date (1.16).
>
>Also, I can load the modules directly in Perl.
>
>[Macintosh-4:/opt/local/bin] jdlh% perl -MHTML::TableExtract -e 1
>[Macintosh-4:/opt/local/bin] jdlh%
>
>I read in a gnucash-users thread from January that a Fink user had 
>similar symptoms, and the fix was to apply a Fink FAQ about telling 
>X-windows of Fink's path. But I don't see how to use that in my 
>situation; I've got MacPorts instead of Fink.
>
>Any suggestions for how to resolve this?
>--
>     --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh at jdlh.com     http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/)
>       multilingual websites consultant
>
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     --Jim DeLaHunt, jdlh at jdlh.com     http://blog.jdlh.com/ (http://jdlh.com/)
       multilingual websites consultant

       157-2906 West Broadway, Vancouver BC V6K 2G8, Canada
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