Re: Some problems compiling gstep-gui-0.6.7

[Yann Le Guen]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> On Friday, March 23, 2001, at 09:57 AM, Yann Le Guen wrote:
> 
> > Mar 23 11:07:40 HostAddress[7534] WARNING - XGContext is unable to use a 
> > fast algorithm 
> > for writing  
> > to the display on this host - perhaps you'd like to adjust the code to work 
> > ... 
> > and submit a patch. 
> > That's ok for that ;-) 
> > But also get: 
> > Uncaught exception NSInternalInconsistencyException, 
> > reason: expected unsigned char and got char  
> > ... :-(( 
> > Will someone help me ? 
> 
> Easy solution ...
> 
> Download a more recent snapshot
> Delete your entire /usr/GNUstep directory
> Build and install the new snapshot.

So I tried:
1 - dowload <core.20010324.tar.bz2> 
Note that downloading any of thoses .tar.bz2 archives located in
ftp.gnustep.oer/pub/daily-snapshots, I got a "bomb" icon file ? Though it's
still possible tu run either bzip2 and tar onto it...

2 - expand (that "bomb" icon file)

3 - Following recommandations in the readme/INSTALL files I try to run the
compile-all script => failed

4 - cd /make, run ./configure => succeed
run make install but yet got : 
./mkinstalldirs  /usr/GNUstep/System /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/powerpc \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/powerpc/linux-gnu \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/Additional \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/share \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Apps \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/powerpc/linux-gnu \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Headers/powerpc/linux-gnu \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/powerpc/linux-gnu \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/powerpc/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu-xgps \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Library \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Colors \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/PostScript \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Services \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Documentation/Developer \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Documentation/User \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Documentation/info \
        /usr/GNUstep/System/Documentation/man \
        /usr/GNUstep/Local \
        /usr/GNUstep/Local/Users \
        /usr/GNUstep/Local/Users/Administrator \
        /usr/GNUstep/Network
make: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 127
:-((
I've already install sgtep from scratch "thousand times" on differents linux
distro, its the first time I'm facing such problems... Did I miss reading some
important new instructions ? Is the SuSEppc 7.0 known as a "problematic"
platform for gstep ?

Back to my preceding mail about both the gui compiling problem and the <expected
unsigned char but got a char> error while running openapp on any sample.
The gui finally got compiled if changing NSCyrillic... to NSISOCyrillic... but
even with that corrected in NSFontInfo.m, I still get the <expected
unsigned...> error :-((

Thanks again for your help.

Later, Yan