Re: building instructions for gnustep don't work

[Gregory John Casamento]

Karel,

Apologies for your troubles, lets see if we can help...

--- Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I tried to install GNUstep according to the building instructions at
>
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/gnustep-howto_toc.html
> which redirected to
> http://www.gnustep.org/
> and that to
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html
> and that to
>
http://wwwmain.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.progeny.com%2Fgnustep%2F
> and that to
> http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide/index.html
> where apparent building instructions are so I continued according to these
> I first installed the gnustep-make INCLUDING the step with
> . /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh (I called it under root as well
> as make install)
> 
> However when doing "./configure" at gnustep-base I got an error message
> clock@beton:~/gnustep-base-1.8.0$ ./configure
> configure: error: You must run the GNUstep initialization script first!

Well, first off.  Don't install the versions on that page.   Go to
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core and download the latest version of all
of the packages there or grab one of the snapshots from the snapshot directory.

>From there follow the instructions on the page you went to..

Second... from what you're saying above, it doesn't seem as though after doing
". /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh" as root that you ALSO did it when
you went to configure base as a normal user.   Please remember when you become
root, you are a different user.  Changes made to that environment will not
propagate to other shells after you cease being root.

Try sourcing the initialization script (GNUstep.sh) and running configure to
see if that helps. 

Later, GJC

P.S. To the maintainer of the build page: do you think we could replace the
references to obsolete versions of GNUstep packages on that page with some more
generic link so that other users don't have this confusion?

=====
Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A Maryland Corporation)
#### Maintainer of Gorm for GNUstep.