> On Oct 22, 2019, at 6:55 PM, David Cousens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I am curious as to what problems you have encountered installing to
> /usr/local and on what Linux distributions? I have never had any problem
> installing there in Linux Mint 17, 18, 19 which presumably also includes the
> Ubuntu and Debian systems they are derived from but don't know about other
> distributions. According to the Linux File Heirarchy standard this is where
> user software built from source should be installed. The "sudo make
> install" currently installs the libraries, share and config files in the
> expected locations as follows:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gnucash main application
> /usr/local/etc/gnucash/environment
> /usr/local/include/gnucash gnucash heaader files
> /usr/local/lib/gnucash gnucash libraries
> /usr/local/lib a few libraries associated with
> libgnc-backend, libgnc-core-utils, libgnc-gnome, libgnc-module
> and libgwengui-gtk3
> /usr/share/gnucash
>
> Apart from requiring sudo privileges I have never encountered any problems
> installing there since I started using GnuCash in 2010.
David,
See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/GNUInstallDirs.html for what
cmake does with special case prefixes. It generally affects just
<prefix>/etc/gnucash/environment.
Regards,
John Ralls
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