> On Jan 2, 2022, at 2:53 PM, M <m_st...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am slowly learning the process of building Gnucash and think I am getting
> the hang of it. My last build was Gnucash 4.9 on a fresh install of Ubuntu
> 20.04 in a VM (after some help on this mailing list!).
>
> Per the instructions on
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#System_wide_multiuser_installation_locations
>
> it appears that if I use the command cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt, the
> software should install to /opt/gnucash. Every time I build gnucash 4.9, it
> appears to be installing directly to /opt. If I use /opt/gnucash as the
> install prefix, it seems to install to /opt/gnucash.
>
> Is this the normal behavior? Am I misreading the wiki? It seems to read
> that during building, if the install prefix is /opt it will install to
> /opt/gnuash.
>
Yup, it's doing exactly what you're telling it to. If you want /opt/gnucash
tell it that.
Note, though, that CMake puts etc/gnucash in what many think is an odd place
when you set the prefix to anything beginning with /opt, see
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/GNUInstallDirs.html#special-cases
<https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/GNUInstallDirs.html#special-cases>.
Regards,
John Ralls
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