Re: GNUmakefiles hopefully different

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Andrew Robbins <and_j_rob@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi I'm a MacOSX user
> 
> I'm trying to install GNUstep to test it out, and just play with having 
> two OpenStep implementations on the same machine... =), also i'm very 
> interested in seeing ProjectCenter bcome as good as or better than 
> Apple's. ProjB. The problem i'm having now is that part of the makefiles 
> for gnustep-base copy things to the root partition temporarily, and even 
> if i'm root it gives me lots of errors. Apperently darwin has security 
> issues with that. specifically, this is the problem:
> 
> md5.c:26: header file 'config.h' not found
> 
> but its 'mv' ing it to /, and it can't bcuz its a script and it deletes 
> the config.h in the gnustep-base/Headers/gnustep/base/config.h
> 
> its rather tireing to ./configure each time i want to try something to 
> make it work... or copying duplicates...
> i can't find where in the GNUstep-Make system or in the GNUmakefile for 
> this proj this moving thing is or if there is a macro for it...
> 
> Andrew Robbins

The makefiles don't install in / when the environment is set correctly.

Use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep
or whatever path where you want to install GNUstep.

Use: . /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh  (with sh like shells),
or: source /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.csh (with csh like 
shells)
to set the environment variable needed to compile/install/run GNUstep stuff.

You may check them with:

    env | grep GNUSTEP

For example, I have:
[pascal@thalassa pascal]$ env | grep GNUSTEP
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=/home/pascal/GNUstep
GNUSTEP_HOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/local/GNUstep/System
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT=/local/GNUstep/Local
GNUSTEP_FLATTENED=
GNUSTEP_HOST_OS=linux-gnu
GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/local/GNUstep/System/Makefiles
GNUSTEP_HOST_VENDOR=pc
GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT=/local/GNUstep/Network
GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU=ix86
GNUSTEP_PATHPREFIX_LIST=/home/pascal/GNUstep:/local/GNUstep/Local:/local/GNUstep/Network:/local/GNUstep/System
GNUSTEP_ROOT=/local/GNUstep

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