Compile Guncash

AC gnucash at acarver.net
Fri Mar 27 18:28:27 EDT 2015


On 2015-03-27 15:06, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

Ok, perhaps that section should end up being split into a standard
compile with direct binaries and then the optional deb later.  It seems
to cause enough confusion especially when the instructions are different
from the portions you wrote.



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