Re: GNUStep on OpenBSD 4.1 - looking for alternative page

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Michael Durket <durket@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: 
> Sebastian,
> 
>     I'm using the AMD architecture. Starting from an existing port  
> won't work. There's
> a note somewhere (I think in the GNUstep developer wiki) that that  
> can't be done because
> the ports system changed between OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2. That's why I'm  
> looking for
> the original notes on that web page.
> 
>      I can't easily switch this system to a more current release (one  
> of the problems with
> OpenBSD) because it's running production continuously so we don't  
> often upgrade.
Hi,

you should install libffi (which is not in the ports), and not libffcall from 
the ports, as afaik libffi is better supported nowadays.
libffi should just compile, otherwise take a look into the Makefile in the 
port that I have on my side and on the patches Makefile* patches in the 
patches subdirectory in the port.
Then you may download the gnustep-startup tarball and try installing this one. 
Afaik it will tell you about any other missing dependencies.

Note that you should use gmake instead of make.
hth

cheers
Sebastian

> 
>     Michael Durket
> 
> On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:53:44 pm Michael Durket wrote:
> >> I'm trying to install GNUStep on OpenBSD 4.1. According to prior  
> >> notes
> >> in various GNUStep discussion
> >> forums, there are supposed to be instructions and other notes by a
> >> user who did this successfully at:
> >>
> >>             http://mail.rochester.edu/~asveikau/gnustep-openbsd/
> >>
> >> however this page is a dead link. Does anyone out there have a copy  
> >> of
> >> what was on this page or can
> >> anyone point me to a page elsewhere that contains the notes for
> >> compiling GNUStep on OpenBSD 4.1?
> > OpenBSD 4.1 is rather old. But afaik, there must be sth. in the ports.
> > Take a look at /usr/ports/X11/gnustep
> >
> > or you may take a look at my ports here:
> > https://www.l00-bugdead-prods.de/
> > those ports are still for OpenBSD 4.4, and they will probably not  
> > work with
> > OpenBSD 4.1. So if you want to use them there, you may need to tweak  
> > them a
> > little bit.
> > I'll very likely update them for OpenBSD 4.5 next week in my holidays.
> > Also, which architecture you are using?
> >
> > cheers
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
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