On 8/27/05 8:19 AM, "Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> David Newman wrote:
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> |>Does the environment in which you run gnucash have the environment variable
> |>PERL5LIB set?
> |
> |
> | Nope, good catch. I'm using Apple's X11. Unlike the system itself, it does
> | not assign the folllowing to the PERL5LIB variable:
> |
> | /sw/lib/perl5:/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
> |
> | I tried setting this manually in X11, then running update-finance-quote as
> | root from within an X11 xterm, then launching gnucash and trying to update
> | quotes again. No joy.
> |
> | So, two questions:
> |
> | 1. How do I set PERL5LIB permanently so fink apps can see it?
> | 2. How to get quote updates working?
> 
> Okay, as far as I know the required perl libraries are installed by fink, so
> try '/sw/bin/init.sh ; gnucash & ' to lauch gnucash, and see if it still
> complains.

OK, I see the problem. Under the 0.8.0 binay install for Tiger,
/sw/bin/init.sh is owned by root:admin and has 0644 permissions. Users can't
initialize environment variables because they can't run the init script.

"chmod 0755 /sw/bin/init.sh" fixes this.

dn




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