Hi David, some historical background:
In Gnucash 2.x we followed the FHS http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s08.html Note, that "Home Directory Specifications and Conventions" is new in version 3, released March 19, 2015. In Gnucash 3.x we obey the XDG Base Directory Specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html "Environment variables" shows the defaults $HOME/.local/share and $HOME/.config. I would not use $HOME/.local as PREFIX because, as you show, $HOME/.local/share would be cluttered by 2 different types of data, which are output of 1. make install 2. running gnucash If you forgot to run 'make uninstall' before each 'make && make install' you can not remove $HOME/.local without loosing the "memory" of gnucash and other XDG conform programs. My approach: I would use $HOME/test as prefix and a) insert $HOME/test/bin into PATH or b) create in $HOME/bin a shell script, whith e.g.: $HOME/test/bin/gnucash --nofile I would not use a hidden directory without a specific reason. Regards Frank Am 05.03.20 um 02:47 schrieb David Cousens: > The wiki Building on Linux currently recommends doing a single user local > installation to $HOME/.local. > > Frank Ellenberger pointed out to me in a thread > (http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GNC-How-to-install-GnuCash-from-Source-for-Linux-tt4716225.html) > on the User forum that this results in $HOME/.local/share containing both > program and user configuration data in $HOME/.local/share/gnucash. > > The data seems to happily coexist, i.e. no folders or files from the program > and configuration data seem to have the same name and make uninstall appears > to leave program data in that location after uninstalling. The following is > a list of the accounts in the location after an install to $HOME/.local. The > files/folders marked with a * following them are the ones which were present > in that location prior to installing GnuCash in $HOME/.local (my user > config data from my normal installation running from in /usr/local). After > an uninstall, the files seem to be deleted but the folders are not generally > deleted so an uninstall of the program is not complete. > > $HOME/.local/share/gnucash*/accounts > /books * > /checks * > /gtkbuilder > /icons > /jqplot > /pixmaps > /python > /scm > /translog * > /ui* > /accelerator-map * > /expressions-2.0 * > /qif-accounts-map * > /saved-reports-2.8 * > /saved-reports-2.8-backup * > /stylesheets-2.0 * > > If I create a directory .apps under $HOME then GnuCash installs to it > without any problem but no link from $HOME/.local/bin to the executable in > $HOME/.apps is created by the installation and the user would have to > create this this manually. Once this is done GnuCash seems to run fine from > $HOME/.apps as a single user app. > > The question is do we need to change the recommendation for installing under > $HOME/.local on the wiki and what should we change it to? If it is agreed > this is necessary I will modify the wiki to suit. > > David Cousens _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
