Thanks Frank I hadn't caught the implications of the changes of configuration locations with V3.
I updated the information in the Building on Linux wiki largely from the 2.6 series with a few up dates when v3 was released. At that time John had been recommending an installation for single user use under $HOME/.local on linux. My personal preference and practice is to create a specific directory under $HOME, $HOME/applications to contain locally built and installed applications and install under that. I don't make it hidden so I am aware of what is in it but that is purely a personal preference. With the new configuration locations the contents that are in /usr/local/share/gnucash in an installation to /usr/local will be put in the $HOME/.local/share/gnucash along with the user configuration data that normally resides there. I just built 3.8 to install in $HOME/.local to check it out. The installation there runs OK and the configuration and program data coexist happily at the moment. AFAIK the installation process seems to include the executable location $HOME/.local/bin in the PATH environment variable. I will try installing in another location and see how it goes. "make uninstall" only removes the program information from that location and not the user configuration information because it is manifest driven but it is certainly not a good practice to mix the program and user configuration data. A user doing a manual uninstall could easily remove required configuration data with saved custom reports etc. along with program data. I'll bring this up on the Dev forum and see if we can get a consensus for a better location to recommend and then modify the wiki accordingly. David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
