[GNC] Getting Gnucash to recognize Finance::Quote is installed correctly on Mac OS 11.4

[James Mauro]

I made the changes and it looks like the gnc-fq-check script isn't even
firing from the gnucash-cli    Trying to see if I'm tripping over some sort
of security settings somewhere that started in recently.  I also tried an
older Gnucash 4.4, with no change so I'm thinking it's some setting in the
computer and not Gnucash directly.   I'll let you know what I find.


jmauro at Wakarusa gnucash %
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-check

/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level

/Library/Perl/5.30

/Network/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level

/Network/Library/Perl/5.30

/Library/Perl/Updates/5.30.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level

/Library/Perl/Updates/5.30.2

/System/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level

/System/Library/Perl/5.30

/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level

/System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30("1.49" "adig" "aex" "aiahk" "alphavantage"
"amfiindia" "asegr" "asx" "aufunds" "australia" "bamosz" "bet"
"bmonesbittburns" "bourso" "bse" "bsero" "canada" "canadamutual" "citywire"
"cominvest" "cse" "deka" "dutch" "dwsfunds" "europe"
"fetch_live_currencies" "fidelity" "fidelity_direct" "fidelityfixed"
"financecanada" "finanzpartner" "finland" "fool" "france" "ftfunds"
"ftportfolios" "ftportfolios_direct" "fundlibrary" "goldmoney" "greece"
"hex" "hu" "hufund" "hungary" "hustock" "iexcloud" "indiamutual"
"known_currencies" "lerevenu" "maninv" "morningstar" "morningstarau"
"morningstarch" "morningstarjp" "mstaruk" "nasdaq" "nyse" "nz" "nzx"
"platinum" "romania" "seb_funds" "sixfunds" "sixshares"
"stockhousecanada_fund" "tdefunds" "tdwaterhouse" "tiaacref" "tnetuk"
"troweprice" "troweprice_direct" "trustnet" "tsp" "tsx" "uk_unit_trusts"
"ukfunds" "unionfunds" "usa" "usfedbonds" "vanguard" "vwd" "yahoo_json"
"yahoo_yql" "za" "za_unittrusts")


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jmauro at Wakarusa gnucash %
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli --logto=stderr --log
gnc.scm=debug --quotes get  2021-Register.gnucash

Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/gnucash-cli


(process:12281): gnc.gui-*WARNING* **: 08:22:07.973: [mac_set_languages()]
Language list: en:en_US:C

* 08:22:08 DEBUG <gnc.scm> gnc:fq-check-sources results: #<eof>

No quotes retrieved. Finance::Quote isn't installed properly.

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:14 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Hmm. Your original question was about how GnuCash determines whether F::Q
> is installed. The answer is that it calls gnc-fq-check. So if works from
> the command line and fails when GnuCash calls it then something is
> different between the two perl environments. Running GnuCash from Finder
> won't read your shell environment, but running it from Terminal does. The
> gnc-fq-foo programs are all perl so you can edit them. It's helpful that
> running GnuCash from Terminal doesn't work because there's a place for the
> output to go. Try adding
>   print STDERR join "\n", @INC;
> to gnc-fq-check right after the line
>   # Runtime.
> Run `gnc-fq-check` and `gnucash-cli --logto=stderr --log gnc.scm=debug
> --quotes get <filename>` from Terminal and compare the output.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On May 28, 2021, at 10:57 AM, James Mauro <jmauro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not that I remember. It's a clean MacOS install when I got this computer
> in November and it worked fine until the MacOS update last month which is
> why the behavior is confounding.
> >
> > The system perl in /usr/bin/perl is the only one on the system that I
> could see with a quick sweep with the terminal find for any others and
> nothing popped out as a different one I can see.
> >
> > Also the  "/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-cli --quotes
> get"  throws "No quotes retrieved. Finance::Quote isn't installed
> properly." even though I confirmed with the 'which' command that it's
> pointing to the /usr/bin/perl like the gnc-fq commands do.
> >
> > James
> >
> > --
> > James Mauro <jmauro at gmail.com> Phone: 785-979-1041
> > "Had I foreseen this, I would have gone into botany" -- Wolfgang Pauli
> >
> >> On May 28, 2021, at 5:51 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>> On May 27, 2021, at 11:18 AM, James Mauro <jmauro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> How does Gnucash verify that Finance::Quote is installed correctly on
> MacOS
> >>> 11?  I followed the instructions in the list archives archives to fix
> Test2
> >>> in CPAN, rebuild Quote::Finance via gnc-fq-update and now both
> gnc-fq-check
> >>> and gnc-fq-dump work as expected, but Gnucash still grays out the "Get
> >>> Quotes" on the Price Database screen and editing a security indicates
> that
> >>> Finance::Quote isn't properly installed.      I've been using Gnucash
> for a
> >>> while and normally once gnc-fq-check and gnc-fq-dump start working
> there it
> >>> magically works, but this time no such luck.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Might you have installed another instance of perl, perhaps with
> Homebrew or MacPorts?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >>
> >>
>
>

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James Mauro <jmauro at gmail.com> Phone: 785-979-1041
132 18th St SE Apt 3 Washington, DC 20003
"Had I foreseen this, I would have gone into botany" -- Wolfgang Pauli