Op zondag 6 mei 2018 10:22:28 CEST schreef DaveC49: > Dennis, > > The obvious place to put the build-cmake directory is in the Applications > directory. I personally would not name it build-cmake but build-gnucash-3.1. > The reason for that is, to uninstall Gnucash there is no need to retain the > gnucash-3.1 source directory which can be deleted, but you will need to > retain the build directory. > > Then there is nothing to identify the build-cmake directory as the build > directory for GnuCash if you call it build-cmake and if you subsequently > compiled another program from the Applications directory using the same > naming convention, you could end up with several build-cmake directories not > knowing which programs they are for, so you would have difficulty > uninstalling them, if you wanted to later. The name is more than likely a > hangover from when the developers were initially testing cmake against the > autotools configure script. They would probably have used a build-cmake and > a build-autotools or something similar to distinguish the parallel builds. > > To start the whole process you would after extracting the tarball to > /home/dennis/Applications > Open a shell then > > cd /home/dennis/Applications > mkdir build-gnucash-3.1 > cd build-gnucash-3.1 > "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local > /home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1" > make > make install > > Don't type the quotes in the above. They are to indicate that everything > between the quotes goes on one line and there is a single space between > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/dennis/.local and > /home/dennis/Applications/gnucash-3.1. Part of the confusion may be that if > your screen resoluition is not the same as mine the wiki may be wrapping > lines. I have three different size screens so i will check that out and try > to find a way to ensure the cammands do appear on the one line. > > That should install GnuCash 3.1 in your local directory. To run it you could > type in a terminal: > > /home/dennis/.local/bin gnucash %f > > I am not exactly sure but I think the %f causes gnucash to open with the > last file it had open. It appears in the installed menu item for gnucash. > No, you don't need to type the %f. Gnucash will open the last file when you don't pass any pathname to the command.
The %f is typically used in *.desktop files to pass on a filename from the desktop file's commandline on to gnucash itself. When yo invoke gnucash directly this is not necessary and maybe even unwanted. Regards, Geert _______________________________________________ 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.
