Am 27.10.19 um 16:50 schrieb John Ralls:
As it turns out Geert thought that he'd fixed this last year, see
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794916. Note the work-around in that
bug report to disable binreloc by passing -DENABLE_BINRELOC=OFF to cmake. Note
also that the reporter on that bug thought that writing the environment file to
/etc/opt was undesirable.
Some people like the FHS, some don't. Somebody who doesn't like the FHS,
can execute "cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/gnucash
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/opt/gnucash/etc". This installs the file
/opt/gnucash/etc/gnucash/environment and it works.
But cmake installs configuration files for /opt/<subdir> to
/etc/opt/<subdir>, if no other SYSCONFDIR is specified explicitly.
It seems, that the bug 794916 wasn't completely fixed. I've now used
strace to see, where gnucash actually looks for the environment file.
It tries to open these files:
/opt/gnucash/etc/opt/gnucash/gnucash/environment
/opt/gnucash/etc/opt/gnucash/gnucash/environment.local
After creating this strange directory and copying the environment file
to it, gnucash starts and works.
I think, there are two issues:
The first issue is only a cosmetic one. If SYSCONFDIR already specifies
a private directory, e.g. /etc/opt/gnucash, then it's not necessary to
create another gnucash subdirectory. That is, the environment file
should be in /etc/opt/gnucash/ and not in /etc/opt/gnucash/gnucash/ or
in /opt/gnucash/etc/ instead of /opt/gnucash/etc/gnucash/. But this may
be hard to fix and it's not a real issue.
The second issue is more important. Gnucash should look for the file in
the actual SYSCONFDIR, wherever it may be, specified by the cmake
command line and the GNUInstallDirs module.
Best regards
Lothar
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