GNU Cash Install Issues on MAC OS 10.5 Leopard

Guillaume Lessard glessard at tffenterprises.com
Wed Apr 9 01:11:52 EDT 2008


On 08-04-08, at 22:50, David Reiser wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Mark Manning wrote:
>
>> The other question I have is if I can now copy the entire compiled  
>> GNUCash and just load it onto another MAC without having to go  
>> through all the download and compile process.  Does anyone know  
>> what has to be copied?
>>
>
> Not counting the files that gnucash itself creates during the build,  
> there are in excess of 150 supporting files/libraries that you would  
> have to move to the right place (same /sw hierarchy). It might even  
> be more like 500 files, since the 150+ is just the number of fink  
> packages that have to be installed before gnucash can be built. And  
> each of those packages is probably more than one file. Some of them,  
> of course, are only needed during the build. But I'd still guess  
> there's more than one file per package required at runtime. Needless  
> to say, I don't know all the files that would have to be copied.


Given that it's all under /sw/, there is the brute force approach of  
using rsync to copy everything. I've done that before and it worked.  
However, since then I've used the other brute force approach:  
recompile everything!

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Guillaume Lessard
glessard at tffenterprises.com



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