On 2021-06-12 09:13, John Ralls wrote:
On Jun 12, 2021, at 12:22 AM, Jim DeLaHunt <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, I can understand that the MacPorts installation of perl may be configured
to look for perl packages in MacPorts locations, and ignore the system
locations. But I don't understand wny the GUI app of GnuCash apparently can
find Finance::Quote when run from the GUI, but the gnucash-cli app apparently
cannot. What is different?
Because applications started by LaunchServices don't get the environment from
your shell's startup files. That means GnuCash is running /usr/bin/perl, not
/opt/local/bin/perl but when you run a program from Terminal the environment is
read so gnucash-cli runs /opt/local/bin/perl.
Thank you, John, this explanation is very helpful. I can understand that
the GnuCash GUI and the gnucash-cli experience different environments,
especially different $PATH values, because the OS invokes them in
different environments.
But I find it very confusing to have gnucash-cli be presented as an
integral part of GnuCash, and all the references to a singular action of
"update Finance::Quote on the system", then have gnucash-cli behave
differently and require a different installation of Finance::Quote than
the GnuCash GUI.
It seems to me that if both gnucash-cli and the GnuCash GUI would invoke
the perl executable at an absolute path, then they would have consistent
behaviour. Thus I wonder why GnuCash lets the environment find the perl
executable.
I have filed Bug 798209, "gnucash-cli might not use the same perl and
Finance::Quote as GnuCash GUI",
<https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798209> , to track this.
My workaround as a MacPorts user: install Finance::Quote into the
MacPorts perl environment:
```
% port install p5-finance-quote
````
—Jim DeLaHunt
_______________________________________________
gnucash-user mailing list
[email protected]
To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
-----
Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
