Re: Building a bundle with resources only fails

[Nicola Pero]

Hi Andreas,

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to build a GNUstep bundle that has resources only (no 
> classes). This fails with the following message:
> [...]
> gcc: No input files
>
> My GNUmakefile looks as follows
> 
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
> BUNDLE_NAME = FBEnterpriseResources
> FBEnterpriseResources_HEADER_FILES_INSTALL_DIR = FBEnterpriseResources
> FBEnterpriseResources_LOCALIZED_RESOURCE_FILES = Localizable.strings
> FBEnterpriseResources_LANGUAGES = English
> include GNUmakefile.preamble
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/bundle.make
> 
> I suppose this is a bug in the make package. How can this be fixed?

Yes - while I can conceive various workarounds, I think you are right and
bundles without an object file in it, but only resources, are going to be
very useful and should be supported directly by gnustep-make.  You can
then just put your resources into an object-less bundle, then you can load
the resources using the standard gnustep-base API for loading resources
from a bundle and that can be useful in a wide range of situations.

So I've implemented support for building bundles without an object file on
CVS.  Please update gnustep-make from CVS and try building your bundle
again.

Of course let me know of any problems.

Thanks for the reporting the problem.