[GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

[R Losey]

I'm pretty sure that Ventura does not work on Intel Macs... I suspect that
Vincent has an M1 or M2 Mac.


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:32 AM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> > On Dec 15, 2022, at 4:37 PM, Vincent Lucarelli <
> vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded to macOS Ventura and am having trouble getting Finance::Quote
> to work.
> >
> > gnc-fq-dump is working in the terminal (see shell output below), but in
> GnuCash I get the error “There was a system error while retrieving the
> price quotes.”
> >
> > Is there some way to get debugging output from the GnuCash app so I can
> see what call is being made and what error is occurring?
>
> If you're trying to use iexcloud in GnuCash and you have an Intel mac then
> the problem is most likely that iexcloud key. GnuCash doesn't read the
> environment set in the shell's .*profile so you'll have to add it as an
> environment variable to the environment file, see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#File_environment.local
> .
>
> There's another problem with newer F::Q modules requiring an api key: Many
> of them don't have an associated environment variable and expect the
> api_key to be passed as a parameter and Finance::Quote doesn't expose any
> way to discover whether a module requires a key making it rather difficult
> for GnuCash to support them.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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