Finance::Quote 1.18 released

[DAVID REISER]

On Sep 30, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Erik Colson <eco at ecocode.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm no user of GnuCash but I follow this list as I'm the maintainer of
> F::Q.
> 
> I've checked the source of gnc-fq-dump which shows that gnucash uses
> /usr/bin/perl. (Well, at least in this file).
> 
> Following here is a procedure to clean up old F::Q installs and
> reinstall it from scratch. IMPORTANT: I DIDN'T TRY THIS PROCEDURE! (But
> I'm quite confident it should work)
> 
> You can launch following command to check in which order the perl
> executable searches for his libraries:
> 
> It is important to prefix perl with /usr/bin/ as some of you have
> installed variants of perl with fink or macports. Depending of your PATH
> settings, you will run another perl than the one is called by gnucash!
> 
>  /usr/bin/perl -V
> 
> at the end of the whole bunch of info you'll get something like this:
> 
> @INC:
>    /Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    /Library/Perl/5.12
>    /Network/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    /Network/Library/Perl/5.12
>    /Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.4
>    /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    /System/Library/Perl/5.12
>    /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>    /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12
>    .
> 
> Now run :
> 
>  /usr/bin/perldoc -lm Finance::Quote
> 
> which should show you which Finance::Quote is loaded. It should be in
> one of the directories listed above. Delete the installed F::Q by
> deleting the whole 'Quote' subdirectory and the 'Quote.pm' file. You'd
> probably need root access to remove them.
> 
> Recheck with the /usr/bin/perldoc ... command above to see if the F::Q
> was removed and that there is no other F::Q install present. Repeat the
> check/deletion as long as there is still another F::Q installed.
> 
> Now you have deleted all versions of F::Q and you can reinstall a fresh
> version.
> 
> As you are using apple system perl, you can then install F::Q by
> downloading Finance-Quote-1.18.tar.gz in a temporary directory and run:
> 
>  tar -xvzf Finance-Quote-1.18.tar.gz
>  cd Finance-Quote-1.18
>  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL
>  make
>  make test
>  sudo make install
> 
> That should then put F::Q in one of the listed directories, and gnucash
> should then use that one.
> 
> hope this helps !
> --
> erik

It helps in that I can confirm neither I nor gnucash is using an unexpected copy of F::Q. F::Q works for yahoo with legitimate ticker symbols. But tiaacref.pm fails make test and (not unexpectedly) returns nothing to gnucash or gnc-fq-dump using the standard tiaacref pseudosymbols such as CREFstok.

Dave
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Dave Reiser
dbreiser at me.com