Re: Problems with building GNUstep and Window Maker

[Adam Fedor]

Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> 
> The problem with Window Maker is that it builds WPrefs.app in
> GNUstep/Local/Apps instead of GNUstep/System/Apps
> 

You might be able to provide a patch to them so that we could at least
configure things so it was installed in System

> I already mentioned in an earlier mail the building of libobjc in
> $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps while it
> should be in one directory lower
> 

It's in the queue...

> One other strange problem I found is that when configuring base from the
> core package I discovered that it detects the gmp.h, it doesn't find the
> gmp library.
> 

gmp isn't used now anyway, 

> For ffcall and the like it doesn't detect them at all
> 

configure isn't generally set up to look for libs in the GNUstep
directory, but it should. Another one in the queue... (and it's getting
quite long). Patches happily accepted!

> It even looks like it doesn't detect the newly build objc library and
> uses the one that is installed with Slackware.
> 
Odd, that should work.


> I was wondering if I should explicitly tell configure where it can find
> the different libraries, although I thought the LD_LIBRARY_PATH should
> find the correct libraries.
> 

Yes you can do that. LD_LIBRARY_PATH is only a runtime variable, not a
compile-time one.