[GNC] Building 4.9 on ubuntu - install location

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Mike 

It is quite likely that the wiki is wrong. I wrote that several years ago from a
pre-existing version and as I never use the installation to /opt but use
/usr/local I possible did not get the final install directory and/or the prefix
for the cmake command correct.  It may also be possible that the cmake and make
instructions require a different prefix for installation to /opt (I don't think
so though).  Please feel free to correct the wiki. The page  edit has
instructions for getting the required permissions to edit the wiki.  If I get a
bit of time, I will test the combinations out with both  make, ninja and cmake.

David Cousens

On Sun, 2022-01-02 at 17:53 -0500, M wrote:
> I am slowly learning the process of building Gnucash and think I am 
> getting the hang of it.  My last build was Gnucash 4.9 on a fresh 
> install of Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM (after some help on this mailing list!).
> 
> Per the instructions on
> 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#System_wide_multiuser_installation_locations
> 
> it appears that if I use the command cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt, 
> the software should install to /opt/gnucash.  Every time I build gnucash 
> 4.9, it appears to be installing directly to /opt.  If I use 
> /opt/gnucash as the install prefix, it seems to install to /opt/gnucash.
> 
> Is this the normal behavior?  Am I misreading the wiki?  It seems to 
> read that during building, if the install prefix is /opt it will install 
> to /opt/gnuash.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mike
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