Finance Quote Install difficulties

[John Ralls]

On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Gill <gill at madyak.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Erik and John -- The work arounds seemed to do it once I understood the need
>>>> for using sudo!  Thanks.
>>> 
>>> great !
>>> We'll probably need to document this ...
>> 
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_install_Finance::Quote_on_a_Mac.3F
>> 
>> But it would be better to figure out what's broken in CPAN and fix
>> it. Even better, I guess, would be to figure out how to get it
>> installed into the bundle so that users needn't mess with CPAN and
>> Xcode at all.
> 
> yep...
> That is doable. We can do this in at least two ways:
> - put all pure-perl modules in a directory of gnucash, and tell so to
> perl on the command line. This will also be most 'os-independent'
> - make a packaged file which includes perl and the modules. this can
> only be done os-dependently
> 
> other ideas ?

Well, not all of the packages are pure perl, which is a big part of the problem. But IIRC perl dlopens modules binaries, so if 
I package them in Resources/lib, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point there, put the modules somewhere, and add somewhere to @INC, it should be good, right?

Regards,
John Ralls