Re: GNUstep won't build with make 4.0

[Adam Fedor]

On Jan 13, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 13 Jan 2014, at 19:57, David Conrad <drconrad@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> InstallGNUstep does not recognize make 4.0 as being a make version > 3.75. 
>> It is apparently only looking at the minor version number.
> 
> The current version of gnustep-make should be checking for version 3.79 or 
> later (including 4).
> 
> Looking at the ChangeLog, it seems that the requirement for 3.79+ was added 
> in release 2.4.0 (May 2010), so if yours is checking for 3.75 it seems likely 
> you are trying to use a release of gnustep thats about four years old (or 
> possibly older).
> 
> Please could you try using the current release (you can get it from the 
> downloads area at http://www.gnustep.org/ or get current code from svn).
> 

I think David is using the startup package, which probably doesn’t check 
correctly.

David: Also note that GNUstep most likely doesn’t work on cygwin. But it’s been 
a while since I’ve checked, so perhaps you might get lucky.

Adam