Re: Problem with compile

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 24 Sep 2011, at 17:56, Jackie Gleason wrote:
> 
> I install and Compile GNUstep by checking out the anonymous core, then 
> compiling in the order make, base, gui, back. I compile all of them using the 
> following command (under sudo shell)..
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/GnuStep
> make
> make install
> 
> After make I run the following...
> . /usr/GnuStep/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

I'm not sure if you actually did exactly what you said ... but that's not what 
the HOWTOs tell you to do, and may well account for things being rather messed 
up. 

The correct order to do things in is:

1. Configure and install make (you can use the --prefix option for this if you 
want)

2. Source the GNUstep.sh script to set up your environment

3. Configure, build and install the other packages *without* using --prefix

The reason for this order is that everything apart from make is designed to be 
handled by gnustep-make, and the build process will take care of installing 
stuff in the correct place depending on how the make package was configured.  
If you use --prefix= with the other packages, you will probably be overriding 
the correct locations, and putting things where they are not expected (so 
headers/libraries won't be found later when you try to use them).