It's been rumoured that Matthew Condell said:
>
> It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
> > Anyway, in looking into these things, I noticed
> > that we have a config variable GNC_CONFIGDIR
> > which we really aren't using. There is a note
> > in Makefile.in to the effect that it ends up
> > being /etc/gnucash and that this is a bad place
> > to put config files. Why is that? Seems like
> > a fine place to put config files.
>
> And linas responded:
> >3) /etc is a kind-of old-fashioned place to put global config files.
> > A slightly newer-fangled place is /usr/share/gnucash ...
>
> On FreeBSD the preferred place for config files is /usr/local/etc
> Maybe we should be able to set the config directory using configure
> arguments. (or can that already be done?)
Ugh. In some ways, configure is a real can of worms. If you say
configure --prefix=/usr
then gnucash gets installed in /usr/bin, and so on. If you don't
say --prefix then the default is /usr/local/.. and so on. Ugh.
I am not sure just how to fix this.
If you fix this, great; maybe you should go to gnucash.org and open
a problem report so that we don't forget about this?
--linas
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