Am 25.10.19 um 15:11 schrieb Derek Atkins:
How did you configure gnucash during the build in order to install it to
/opt/gnucash? You need to tell gnucash where it is being installed when
you build it, so it will look in the right place for its files.
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gnucash ..
make
make install
That's the "official" way to set the install directory. But cmake tries
to be smart and tries to follow the file hierarchy standard if the path
starts with /opt. According to the standard, optional packages should be
installed to /opt/<name>, editable config files to /etc/opt/<name> and
log files should go to /var/opt/<name>. But cmake (or the cmake
configuration of gnucash) isn't smart enough, because it doesn't work
correctly.
Am 25.10.19 um 15:13 schrieb Derek Atkins:
If "prefix" is /opt/gnucash, then shouldn't the file live in
/opt/gnucash/etc/environment?
No, see above. It doesn't matter for a single workstation, but in a
multi-workstation configuration, the splitting of the directories does
make sense. The directory /opt will then contain only invariable files
and it could be mounted read only from a central server. All variable
files will be in the local directories /etc/opt and /var/opt on each
workstation.
Lothar
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