Compile Guncash

[Colin Law]

On 27 March 2015 at 18:18, AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
> On 2015-03-27 09:25, Dennis Powless wrote:
>> I had read the readme file and was not very helpful.
>>
>> I had entered the command.   ./configure but got errors.  I want to say it
>> was the target, but later when I had stated the target it worked.
>>
>> Why does the above mentioned wiki have me make a .deb file, when others
>> don't.  This didn't work.
>>
>> Checkinstall vs make install
>>
>> Thanks for the info,  very helpful
>
>
> I don't understand why the tarball insists on making a .deb (or if the
> wiki is confused and suggests it makes one when the tarball really
> doesn't).  Most of the time when compiling from a tarball the binaries
> are made directly (no deb's) and installed directly.  If the tarball
> really is making a deb then I suspect it's to ensure that gnucash shows
> up in the package manager.

The tarball does not insist on making a deb, it is just that the
person that wrote that section of the wiki wanted to do it that way.
When I did the entries for earlier versions of Ubuntu (which can be
seen in the wiki) I just compiled to binaries and ran or installed
from those.  If I needed to compile gnucash now I would do it the way
I described rather than making a deb, which I think just adds
complexity.  Also I think it is better to get the source from git
rather than using the tarball.

Colin