Re: Debian Packages: Am I really using gnumake?

[Dirk Olmes]

> Deploying an application which is using gnustep-base1, I note that I
> have to install that package on the target machine. Which is fine. But
> it insists on installing gnustep-make. Why? As near as I can tell, my
> application isn't using anything provided by that package. I didn't even
> build it with gnumake (would love to eventually, but it's not an option
> yet). It seems that gnumake should be something that gnustep-base1
> suggests, but not requires.

I don't know about the debian packages but I' pretty sure that the
requirement on gnustep-make exists because the script that does the setup
of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and all of the GNUstep specific environment vars
resides in <GNUSTEP_ROOT>/System/Developer/Makefiles.

You *could* do without the script but things are way easier if you use it.

-dirk

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