[GNC] Fwd: Access problems fetching shares prices from, Australian Stock Exchange

[Peter Lamb]

I forgot to copy to the list:

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Subject: 	Re: [GNC] Access problems fetching shares prices from, 
Australian Stock Exchange
Date: 	Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:15:54 +1000
From: 	Peter Lamb <peter_lamb2001 at yahoo.com.au>
To: 	Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net>



Hi, Kalpash, sorry for the delay getting back to you, I haven't had time 
to look at my Gnucash problems for a few days.

On 15/7/2026 07:32, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> Is there any specific reason you are averse to installing homebrew and 
> cpanm modules on the Mac?

This, from John Ralls:

On 12/7/2026 03:58, John Ralls wrote:
> If you have more than one perl installed make sure to only use 
> /usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/cpan because they’re the only ones that 
> GnuCash can see when it’s launched from Finder

And this from the Gnucash documentation that John linked to in that email:


              Perl runtime location

    The gnc-fq-update script always runs the macOS system Perl runtime
    (/usr/bin/perl), and disregards the Perl installed by package
    managers. Doing so ensures GnuCash, when launched from Finder, can
    locate Finance::Quote correctly.

It would probably be possible to hack the #! in gnc-fq-update to point 
to an alternative perl, but I don't know whether there would be any 
unexpected repercussions.

Cheers,
Peter