more notes from robbs patch

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Linas Vepstas 1998-11-20 15:58:37 +00:00
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@ -204,6 +204,28 @@ Flag --with-gtk-config. The way gtk phiolosphy goes,
you should *only* specify the config program location and
rely on it to tell you the right CFLAGS and XLIBS values.
The new --shell option should work properly now too. There is no
gnucash-shell anymore. There's just one binary. You can invoke
gnucash with the --shell option now to get a guile shell with all the
gnucash functions loaded. You can also get the normal startup
behavior from that shell like this:
./gnucash --shell
guile> (load (string-append gnc:_startup-dir-default_ "/init.scm"))
guile> (gnc:main)
which is the same thing that happens if you don't use the --shell
option.
The --shell option can be helpful when trying to write and test new
.scm files. I set it up so that I (or someone else) could
(eventually) work on the graphing stuff...
Anyone who's having the same problem with the added termcap libs that
I am can look in configure.in and comment out the TERMCAP_TMP line and
re-run autoconf and configure. We'll have a better fix later.
Runtime and install destinations are separate. The --prefix
you specify to configure determines where the resulting binary
will look for things at runtime. The prefix you give to make