I don't see why you can't softlink/symlink the install of gnucash... That's what I do for all unix software installs as well, and it works fine with them and gnucash.
-- Nathan On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 17:29, Derek Atkins wrote: > Laurent Duperval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 4 Apr, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > That's what I thought. This is _WRONG_. > > > > > > > No it's not. Every piece of software I compile is compiled and installed > > like this and they all work. Doing this allows you to do soft-linking in > > any directory and it will alway work. > > WTF is "soft linking"? > > And yes, it is wrong. "gnucash" is not "every piece of software". > I'm trying to tell you what you need to do with GnuCash. It doesn't > matter if lots of other stuff works differently, this is how GnuCash > works. Jumping up and down and ignoring the directions you are given > because you think it should work differently is not the way to convince > people it's broken. > > Basically, if you're not going to follow directions, then maybe you > can go find someone else to hand-hold you. I'm trying to help. Don't > ignore what I'm saying. > > > > You should run: > > > > > > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/soft/gnucash/run/i686_pc_linux > > > > > > > That's what I used to do but this breaks soft-linking. When I complained > > about this (for other applications), I was told that when using > > autoconf, you should use the --prefix when running make install, not > > when running configure (or autogen in this case), if you plan on doing > > softlinking. > > As I said, I don't know what "soft-linking" is in terms of software > installation. Basically, gnucash needs to know where it's going to be > installed when you configure it. Period. End of story. You have to > tell it during the configuration phase. You cannot change it during > the installation phase. > > If you want to install into a temporary directory, like how .deb or > .rpm is built, you need to use the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable > when you "make install" in order to get the re-link process to work > properly. You need to do: > > DESTDIR=/tmp/path > prefix=/usr/real/path > > env LIBRARY_PATH=$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib:$(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib/gnucash \ > make install DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR) > > > I will also note that this used to work but then, sometime in the life > > of the 1.7.x series, it suddenly broke. I'd also mentioned it at the > > time. > > AFAIK this _never_ worked.. It certainly never worked for me. This > is how it works now.... > > Part of the broken is the version of libtool we're using. I do > not expect this to be changed in the 1.8 series, but hopefully > we can "fix" this for 2.0 (or 1.10). > > -derek -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
