[GNC] gnucash-cli says, "No quotes retrieved. Finance::Quote isn't installed properly" on macOS

[D.]

Jim,

I understand your complaint here, but it seems to me that the issue here is that MacPorts is prepending its directories into the environment path. Because they altered the path to prefer their own executables before the Apple supplied ones, gnucash-cli fails. That doesn't seem to me to be a fault of Gnucash or its documentation. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com>
Sent: Sat Jun 12 21:31:41 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash-cli says, "No quotes retrieved. Finance::Quote isn't installed properly" on macOS

On 2021-06-12 09:13, John Ralls wrote:

>> On Jun 12, 2021, at 12:22 AM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
>>
>> OK, I can understand that the MacPorts installation of perl may be configured to look for perl packages in MacPorts locations, and ignore the system locations. But I don't understand wny the GUI app of GnuCash apparently can find Finance::Quote when run from the GUI, but the gnucash-cli app apparently cannot. What is different?
> Because applications started by LaunchServices don't get the environment from your shell's startup files. That means GnuCash is running /usr/bin/perl, not /opt/local/bin/perl but when you run a program from Terminal the environment is read so gnucash-cli runs /opt/local/bin/perl.

Thank you, John, this explanation is very helpful. I can understand that 
the GnuCash GUI and the gnucash-cli experience different environments, 
especially different $PATH values, because the OS invokes them in 
different environments.

But I find it very confusing to have gnucash-cli be presented as an 
integral part of GnuCash, and all the references to a singular action of 
"update Finance::Quote on the system", then have gnucash-cli behave 
differently and require a different installation of Finance::Quote than 
the GnuCash GUI.

It seems to me that if both gnucash-cli and the GnuCash GUI would invoke 
the perl executable at an absolute path, then they would have consistent 
behaviour. Thus I wonder why GnuCash lets the environment find the perl 
executable.

I have filed Bug 798209, "gnucash-cli might not use the same perl and 
Finance::Quote as GnuCash GUI", 
<https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798209> , to track this.

My workaround as a MacPorts user: install Finance::Quote into the 
MacPorts perl environment:

```
% port install p5-finance-quote
````

    —Jim DeLaHunt

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