Re: gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
> Even if it did break, a user having to change a path statement only > takes a few seconds and probably wouldn't be the complete end of the > world. Why in the world are you arguing with me? Did you look at the patch? Do you understand what it does??? Have you never seen that construct befo

Re: Save doesn't save

1999-08-21 Thread Andrew S. Howell
> "Ben" == Ben Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Hey Andy, I'm having trouble reproducing this bug. Can you Ben> give me a short list of steps that will cause the save to Ben> fail? Ben, >From the Account menu, select "New Account" Select "income" Account Name: income De

Re: Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0

1999-08-21 Thread Per Bojsen
*** Regarding Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0; Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds: Patrick> In the accounts windows with no subaccounts displayed, select Patrick> the "Bank Accounts" line, and from the "Account" menu, select Patrick> "Open subaccounts". Try the enclosed

Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 - creating subaccount

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: Another crash report. gnucash-1.2.3, stock redhat 6.0. Lesstif 0.88.1. All the rest of my versions are in my prior mail message re: installing. :-) How to reproduce: This crash manifests while creating subaccounts: Start gnucash without specifying an account file, in order to have a

Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: Here's a crash report. gnucash-1.2.3, stock redhat 6.0. Lesstif 0.88.1. All the rest of my versions are in my prior mail message re: installing. :-) How to reproduce: Create an account nested to 3 layers deep. Eg: Bank accounts + Bank name + Checking account + Savings a

War story: installing gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: I thought it might be useful to talk about my experience installing gnucash 1.2.3 on my stock redhat 6.0 box at home. Especially since redhat is getting more popular, and lots of people have it. I wanted to install as much of the necessary software as possible in rpm format, to make it eas

Re: gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread Alan Orndorff
David O'Brien wrote: > > As long as you have /usr/local before /usr/ccs/bin in your path > > statement, your fine on Solaris. > > As a followup, what happens when /usr/ccs/bin is 1st in the path, and the > user knows this. Thus they do: > > cd gnucash-x.yz > /usr/local/bin/make > > the b

Re: gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
> As long as you have /usr/local before /usr/ccs/bin in your path > statement, your fine on Solaris. As a followup, what happens when /usr/ccs/bin is 1st in the path, and the user knows this. Thus they do: cd gnucash-x.yz /usr/local/bin/make the build will break. - %< -

Re: gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
> > On both Solaris and BSD /usr/bin/make is not GNU's make. When GNU's make > > is installed on these systems it is most often named gmake. The actual > > name does not matter as the invoker knows what he called it. > > As long as you have /usr/local before /usr/ccs/bin in your path

Re: gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread Alan Orndorff
David O'Brien wrote: > On both Solaris and BSD /usr/bin/make is not GNU's make. When GNU's make > is installed on these systems it is most often named gmake. The actual > name does not matter as the invoker knows what he called it. I'm having a hard time following this. On Solaris that I've w

gnucash-1.2.2 Makefile broken for non-Linux case

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
There is another problem building gnucash-1.2.2 -- an "All the World's Linux" problem. On both Solaris and BSD /usr/bin/make is not GNU's make. When GNU's make is installed on these systems it is most often named gmake. The actual name does not matter as the invoker knows what he called it. Ho

gnucash-1.2.2 totally broken for /usr/*local*/bin/guile

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
I am trying to upgrade the FreeBSD port of gnucash, but am having a problem -- the "All the World's Linux" problem. It seems that guile and guile-config will only be detected if it is in /usr/bin. Since 90% of the Unix world puts guile in /usr/local, I think think the configure.in script needs t

handling opening balances

1999-08-21 Thread Peter Pointner
I'm playing with the QIF import and noticed that it does not handle "opening balance" entries. Thinking about it, I don't know how to handle that at all in a double-entry system. If accounts are created manually, the user could create some special category before which would get the corresponding