[GNC] Finance::Quote on Mac M1

[Colin]

Thank you John! I ran the commands you provided and Finance::Quote works for the first time since I got my M1 MacBook Air! I’ve been watching the Finance::Quote threads on the list the last few months, always hoping for a solution I could manage to I implement to fix the issue. No doubt I could have missed this if it was posted before, regardless you just made my day.

For what it’s worth, my install of GnuCash was done the standard way - downloading the DMG from the website. 

Also, to make the solution crystal clear to those who are not as good on the command line, there was a typo in John’s most recent advice of the commands to run. It is B::Keywords (capital K):

sudo cpan -i Test2; sudo cpan -f -i B::Keywords; sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote

Very gratefully, 
Colin

> On Aug 19, 2021, at 8:36 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 20:36:28 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>>
> To: davelist at mac.com <mailto:davelist at mac.com>
> Cc: Mailing List Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Finance::Quote on Mac M1
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> You didn't read my letter very carefully: You should be able to get quotes now if you do `sudo cpan -i Test2; sudo cpan -f -i B::keywords; sudo cpan -i Finance::Quote`. The system perl is a universal binary and works in both native and Rosetta2 environments. Perl from other sources may or may not work and will regardless require modifying Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash/environment to set the perl path and @INC so that GnuCash can find the right F::Q. If you insist on that you're on your own.
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> As for a native M1 build, I haven't decided yet whether to do that before the next major nettle release. I really don't like pushing development software at ordinary users, it tends to make for unpleasant surprises. Meanwhile GnuCash seems to work well under Rosetta2 so there's not a strong argument for doing a native build until nettle's ARM64 implementation is in a stable release.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls