Re: *Any* way to getting GNUstep on a G4 ???

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 28 oct. 04, à 01:06, M. Uli Kusterer a écrit :

> In article <mailman.5310.1098807185.2017.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
>  Fabien VALLON <fabien@sonappart.net> wrote:
>
> > I installed GNUstep under MacOSX last month and it works (without
> > sound, with back-xlib)
>
>  You mean with Apple's GCC? Everybody told me that wouldn't work and
> that I had to compile my own GCC, which is where everything failed last
> time, I think. I got some weird errors

no, you need to compile your own gcc (perhaps the next apple's gcc will 
include the gnu runtime properly, but for the moment..)

> > I just follow the gcc & GNUstep HOWTO/FAQ
>
>  Is there a new HOWTO or something?

the one in the makefiles docs, README.Darwin

> > What are your problem exactly ?
>
>  NB - This was under Jaguar back then. Haven't tried it on Panther yet,
> because I thought that installing a Linux would be an easier way ... 
> the
> best laid plans of mice and men...

hm, I remember that gnustep used to *not* work properly on previous OSX 
versions, and it started to work -- I think -- on Jaguar.
If i'm wrong and if you can, just install Panther, as it definitely 
work on it ;-)

Else, what you can do, if  you want to run linux on your G4, is perhaps 
to try this new distributino, Ubuntu, as it's seem quite nice,
is based on debian, and is available for PPC... 
http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article207.html

Then, once linux is installed, just install gnustep (grab the tgz and 
follow the classical install way, or use cvs, or even try to see
if the gnustep deb packages are available..)

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Nicolas Roard
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