Hello GnuCash devs --
I just recently downloaded 2.3.7 form SVN and compiled, and am getting
things set up. After compiling, I got clever and thought hey, I actually
want this directory over in ~/bin instead of here in ~/dev, but then I
promptly found things breaking after I moved the directory.
First off, creating a symlink to the "gnucash" script in {GnuCash
directory}/bin raises fun errors with gnucash-setup-env not being found.
eir...@boreas:~$ gnucash
.: 14: gnucash-setup-env: not found
eir...@boreas:~$ ls -l ~/bin/gnucash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 eirikr eirikr 21 2009-10-22 21:31 /home/eirikr/bin/gnucash ->
./GnuCash/bin/gnucash
eir...@boreas:~$
What about the following instead as the contents of that initial launch
script, to explicitly check for the base directory from which to run:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -L `which $0` ]
then
DIR=$(dirname `readlink -f $(which $0)`)
else
DIR=$(dirname `which $0`)
fi
. $DIR/gnucash-setup-env
exec $DIR/gnucash-bin "$@"
This at least gets the process rolling and seems to successfully run
gnucash-setup-env, but then I get the next failure message:
eir...@boreas:~$ gnucash
/home/eirikr/bin/GnuCash/bin/gnucash-bin: error while loading shared
libraries: libgnc-qof.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
eir...@boreas:~$
The libgnc-qof.so.1 file is right where it should be:
eir...@boreas:~$ locate libgnc-qof.so.1 | grep "/home/eirikr/bin"
/home/eirikr/bin/GnuCash/lib/libgnc-qof.so.1
/home/eirikr/bin/GnuCash/lib/libgnc-qof.so.1.0.4
eir...@boreas:~$
This makes me wonder if a) moving the directory is the issue, or b) having
renamed the directory from "gnucash" to "GnuCash" (to allow me to set a
symlink in the same parent directory with the lower-case name) is the
problem. I just tried moving / renaming things back to the way they were
when I compiled, and lo, it's working again. Either way, it starts to sound
a bit like paths are being hardcoded somewhere during compilation.
Is this guess right? If so, could / should paths be made relative instead
of absolute?
Cheers,
-- Eiríkr Útlendi
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