Online quote retrieval seems to be broken with the basic Fink install
of GnuCash on my system.
The issue seems to be that Fink works with /sw/bin/perl5.8.6, but many
of the gnucash scripts and executables are hard-coded to use /usr/bin/
perl (presumably done at configure time).
Workaround is:
1) make the environment variable PERL5LIB="", and unset it (not sure
if both are necessary)
2) ensure that the required modules are available to /usr/bin/perl.
In my case, I needed to install Finance::Quote, HTML::TableExtract,
and Date::Manip.
3) build a shell script that does step 1 above before starting GnuCash.
It works now. If there's a tidier way to do this, I'd be most keen to
hear about it. I considered ensuring that /sw/bin on my path before /
usr/bin, and making a symlink file of /sw/bin/perl5.8.6 to /sw/bin/
perl, then re-running the gnucash compile and install, but haven't had
any time since that idea.
Cheers
Jason
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