Mike It is quite likely that the wiki is wrong. I wrote that several years ago from a pre-existing version and as I never use the installation to /opt but use /usr/local I possible did not get the final install directory and/or the prefix for the cmake command correct. It may also be possible that the cmake and make instructions require a different prefix for installation to /opt (I don't think so though). Please feel free to correct the wiki. The page edit has instructions for getting the required permissions to edit the wiki. If I get a bit of time, I will test the combinations out with both make, ninja and cmake.
David Cousens On Sun, 2022-01-02 at 17:53 -0500, M 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. > > Thanks! > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
