Derek, It is possible it will cause problems. When you specify the prefix the installation procedure puts the libraries and shared resources in particular locations. AFAIK it doesn't create environment variables in your system but the choice of prefix goes affect how GnuCash looks for files internally. I think if you use /opt it will expect to find the binary in /opt/bin libraries in /opt/lib shared resources in /opt/share whereas if you specicy /opt/gnucash the program will be looking in /opt/gnucash/bin /opt/gnucash/lib etc. Generally with /opt I think it is the preferred practice that the application libraries and other resources should all be in a directory under the applications name in /opt. The build/install scripts if my memory serves me used to do this automatically for installs to $HOME/.local or /opt but I havent built for /opt for several years now. The structure for installaton in /usr or /usr/local is different from an install in /opt as there are standard conventions for locations. /usr should only be used by the software that is part of the OS. /usr/local is generally intended for software that the user optionally installs from the OS repositories and in both these locations files go into general /bin, /lib, /share subdirectories and not application specific (they may however be under an application specific subdirectory of /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib for example however).
You may also need to append the /opt locations to the PATH environment variable if the install script hasn't done so. I would rebuild and reinstall using the location you want to put the files into. I normally build for /usr/local as I don't use the Gnucash version from the OS repository and havent for the past 10 years. The only difficulty with using /usr/local is that you might accidentally install GnuCash from the repository over your own build. If you look in the build directory you will find a file install.manifest which will list the locations that Gnucash has been installed into. These are the locations in which the program created from that build will be expecting to find the files. It is used when you use the $ninja uninstall command to remove an installation. If files have been moved this will not be successful and you may have to remove them manually (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Uninstall_Gnucash_Linux) but there are risks of impacting other installed software in a manual uninstall. David Cousens ----- 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.
