[GNC-dev] Single User Installation location on Linux

2020-03-04 Thread 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 $HOM

Re: [GNC-dev] Build on MacOS

2020-03-04 Thread jean laroche
Thanks John, Of course, I know it's never a good option to press [3] and skip, but this way you could see all errors that weren't caused by previous errors. > Did you tell jhbuild to skip mysql? No, I don't even know how to do that! :) You have a bad boost download so you'll have to delete th

Re: [GNC-dev] Build on MacOS

2020-03-04 Thread Roger Moore
mmm I'm running into a new problem now, which I really don't understand... Teds-iMac:~ gnucash$ jhbuild build Loading .env environment variables… jhbuild build: failed to parse /Users/gnucash/Source/jhbuild/modulesets/file:/Users/john/Development/GTK-OSX/gtk-osx-build/modulesets-stable/gtk-osx.mod

Re: [GNC-dev] Single User Installation location on Linux

2020-03-04 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
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 Specificat