On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 20:52, Decibels wrote: > Hello, > The script that comes with GnuCash doesn't check if libwww-perl is > installed, which it won't work without. > I emailed the Finance::Quote developer and he agrees that something > should be done, but it isn't his script. > > Gentoo is the only distro that I have had GnuCash installed on, so I > don't know about the others. Maybe some > install libwww-perl my default. > > I wrote a patch to add a line to the script saying basically that > libwww-perl must be installed for Quotes to work > in GnuCash. I don't really want to deploy the patch though. I would > prefer the fix came from the people developing > GnuCash. > > Gentoo didn't want to make another dep, frankly because GnuCash > doesn't depend on libwww-perl. But a notice > of the fact was agreed on. One suggestion was at the end of GnuCash > build process. I think it would be more appropriate > to put it in the Update-Finance-Script. Because people may not remember > that notice if they install the Finance::Quote > Perl module later. > > So can something be done on your end to add a notice in the script > that libwww-perl needs to be installed also? > > Thanks, Dave >
It could be made a dependency in the package manager, maybe. I don't know about .tgz, but I know apt and rpm support dependency checking. Or perhaps just a post-install message saying "install this", as well as a similar message at the end of the build, if the package is not already installed. -- Matthew Vanecek perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' ******************************************************************************** For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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