On Nov 29, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Jason Turner wrote: > 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
I'm assuming you're on Leopard.... Did you try installing the -pm588 versions of those modules, which use the system's Perl instead? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
