Re: GNUstep installation, was Compiling from scratch.

[Jason Clouse]

> This is all open to suggestion, this is why I posted; I'd like to 
> hear what 
> others have to say on the subject

How about a single build script that will analyze your system and 
installed libraries/binaries, and give you a detailed report of 
everything that needs to be downloaded and installed, including 
minimum version numbers, AND in the necessary order?  For the entire 
core.

Right now, you have to run configure for make, base, gui, and back.  
And for each one, configure tells you something is missing, so you get 
it and install it.  Then you run configure again and discover that 
something else is missing.  Repeat ad nauseum.

The first time I built GNUstep, this is what I did and I think other 
people will do the same thing.  People have an aversion to reading 
instructions, so if they see "configure" there, they just tend to run 
it and then "make; make install".