Compile Guncash

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 27 March 2015 15:28:27 AC wrote:
> 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.
> 
Good suggestion. Feel free to go in and improve this. As this is a wiki 
everybody is encouraged to work on it.

Geert