Feel free to submit a patch. Personally, I just always run out of an install dir -- I don't consider it a major hastle. I just add /opt/gnucash-cvs/bin to my patch and viola, it all works. Sure, it takes bit more time to iterate through the fix/build/test cycle, but it works fine for me.
-derek Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is it correct that nobody cares much about running gnucash in the > > > source tree? I tried doing this and encountered several obvious > > > errors. Here's what I had to do to make it start (I haven't tested > > > much, but it seems to be working): > > > > No, it's not correct that nobody cares. It is correct that nobody > > really tests it. ;) > > Now that I tried to use the window that pops up, I see that > GNC_GLADE_DIR is hard-coded > (gnome-utils/dialog-utils.c:gnc_glade_xml_new and > gnome-utils/gnc-dir.h:GNC_GLADE_DIR). There are a couple other > hard-coded paths in gnc-dir.h, and one in /app-utils/i18n.h, which > is probably not critical. > > There doesn't appear to be a mechanism like gnc:config-var-value-get > for C code to get a parameter like this. Is it worth adding one? > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
