Re: Debian and Ubuntu packages

[Philippe Roussel]

Le 14/08/2012 10:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :
> 
> On 14 Aug 2012, at 09:32, Philippe Roussel wrote:

[snip]

>> I'm thinking about building libobjc2 so that the library is called
>> libobjc2.so. That could simplify thinks a bit.
> 
> If you want to use libobjc2 with gnustep, the easy way to do it (unless 
> things have changed) is:
> 
> 1. configure/install gnustep-make 
> 2. build/install libobjc2 in the gnustep environment (should automatically 
> install it where it will be found)
> 3. configure/install gnustep-make again (so it finds libobjc2 and uses it) 
> ... takes about 20 seconds 
> 4. build everything else
> 
> Doing things this way imposes that 20 second delay while you re-do 
> gnustep-make, but means you don't have to worry about how you configure 
> libobjc2 and where it gets installed.  For me, with an unreliable memory, 
> (and probably most people who will only set up new systems occasionally and 
> won't remember what they did last time), that's a major win.

Yes, that's what I do on my own computers, it's easy and works well. But
this time I'm trying to build debian packages and I have to build them
in a specific order and one time only, as far as I know.

Philippe