Compile Guncash

[AC]

On 2015-03-28 00:14, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'll take a look but I don't use Ubuntu so I can't really edit that
particular section.  It just has too many idiosyncrasies.  Best I could
do would be to add a generic section.