Your GNUstep install problems

[Juergen Gnoss]

Hi,

I tried about two weeks to find out all possible misstakes while install
GNUstep, finally I know about some problems on different plattforms.

here some hints out of my trial period.

First, the versions of all installed libraries and tools could be greater
than named on the gnustep.net description. that means binutils 2.12 and gcc
3.1  also guille and another packages no problem
The problem is ...

- You should download all of this packages as source codes,
reconfigure, remake and reinstall them exact with the config parameters
given in the install instruction.
doesn't matter they are already installed and running on your machine or
not.
Different distributions of linux have different way's to install software
lib's and tools.

After that also the latest cvs versions of GNUstep are configured, compiled,
linked and installed right. Especially the problem about the mystic message

"error while loading shared libraries: libgnustep-base.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: ..."

is history after you add
"/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-linux/3.0.4/" to your /etc/ld.so.conf or to
your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Another point is the execution of $GNUSTEP_ROOT/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

you should make sure you call it with the leading ". " << DOT BLANK
SCRIPTPATH >> also out of a shell script.

Helper after you   "su" to root or someone else is, calling this  GNUstep.sh
and the ld_lib_path.sh script manually, if you have this called in the
xinitrc and not in .profile or similar login scripts.


Happy installing

Juergen