> On Oct 22, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Lothar Paltins <lkp...@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Derek,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
>> First, that clone command wont bring you maint branch, it will still check
>> out master into a directory named "maint". You need a -b maint in there
>> to pull the maint branch.
>> Second, did you "make install"? GnuCash is finicky about being run from
>> the build tree.
>
> Yes, I forgot the -b before maint in my git clone command and yes, I've
> installed it to /opt/gnucash. But starting /opt/gnucash/bin/gnucash doesn't
> work. Does gnucash have problems finding modules if it's installed in a
> non-standard location?
Everything has trouble finding modules in non-standard locations. Use
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add those non-standard locations to the search paths for ld
and dlopen.
BTW, cmake puts the global config files--the ones that normally live in
<prefix>/etc--in some strange subdirectory of /etc when <prefix> starts with
/opt. GnuCash doesn't know about that and won't be able to find
gnucash/environment, which may or may not break things. It does other strange
things if <prefix> is /usr or starts with /usr/local, so life is easier if you
install in a directory under $HOME, which also saves you needing to sudo for
make install.
Regards,
John Ralls
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