Correction: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s13.html says that AT&T invented /opt for SYSV.
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html is as close to canonical as one gets for what different parts of the file hierarchy are for and how they should be used. Regards, John Ralls > On May 2, 2019, at 10:03 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > AT&T Unix and the real BSD did have /usr/local as the place for installing > stuff not part of the system. Sun Microsystems started using that for their > Solaris extensions to BSD and invented /opt as the place for > locally-installed packages. Both typically require root to install into and > some distros have put stuff in one or the other, so care is advised when > using either. > > There's another problem: CMake treats both specially and munges the > subdirectory locations; this is worst with /opt as it insists on stuffing > etc/gnucash into a weird path under /etc so root is required for the install > step and gnucash can't find the environment file. > > I lean towards guiding inexperienced users toward keeping everything in their > home directories and away from using su or sudo for anything. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On May 2, 2019, at 9:40 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On many varieties of Linux /usr/local is the conventional location to >> add locally built packages. In this case probably /usr/local/gnucash. >> I think the build instructions used to suggest that but I may be >> mistaken. >> >> Colin >> >> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 17:27, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >> wrote: >>> >>> Op donderdag 2 mei 2019 18:03:22 CEST schreef Tommy Trussell: >>>> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 6:02 AM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Our current wiki on building gnucash for Ubuntu 16.04 (https:// >>>>> wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/BuildUbuntu16.04) suggests $HOME/.local as a valid >>>>> installation prefix. >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> So personally I would recommend against using $HOME/.local as installation >>>>> prefix. I am however curious where this suggestion originally came from. >>>> >>>> This is entirely speculation... I'm looking at this system where I've been >>>> testing the GnuCash versions available as Snap and Flatpak... and I see >>>> that the Flatpak installation apparently added >>>> ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share to the $XDG_DATA_DIRS environment >>>> variable. >>>> >>>> Maybe whoever wrote the wiki entry was also working with Flatpak and >>>> thought .local would be a good place to stash things to make them more >>>> accessible to Flatpak. >>>> >>> Possibly. >>> >>>> I would think ~/bin would be a more ideal suggestion because I see it is >>>> already defined in my bash $PATH on this Ubuntu machine. (And I'm pretty >>>> sure I didn't add it, though I may have.) >>> >>> That would be another alternative location. To have gnucash benefit from >>> ~/bin >>> being on the path though the gnucash binary itself should be ~/bin/gnucash. >>> >>> Translating this back to the required installation prefix would mean the >>> installation prefix should be $HOME. >>> >>> This is certainly possible but has the drawback the installation would add >>> extra directories in your home directory, like >>> ~/share >>> ~/etc >>> ~/lib(64) >>> ... >>> >>> That may be cluttering the home directory more than the average user may >>> like. >>> And in addition if someone is adding other binaries to ~/bin it again >>> becomes >>> more difficult to keep the gnucash build separate from everything else. >>> >>> To me something like Adrien suggested makes most sense. >>> One could add two extra steps to simplify launching gnucash afterwards: >>> - make a softlink from <installation_prefix>/bin/gnucash to >>> /home/bin/gnucash. >>> This would allow console users to simply type "gnucash" to run their own >>> gnucash build. >>> - copy <installation/prefix>/share/applications/gnucash.desktop to >>> ~/.local/share/applications >>> That should make you graphical environment aware of your self-built gnucash >>> and have it pop up in the usual places to launch applications (the Kicker >>> menu >>> on KDE, or the gnome-shell application launcher). >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Geert >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
