Re: Some issues with my Slackware Packages...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Nov 2006, at 17:00, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> YES!!! I finally found the problem!  Turns out gnustep-base  
> installs a make file, base.make, under $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/ 
> Additional during the make install process, as opposed to  
> installing the file under $GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR/Library/ 
> Makefiles/Additional (which is where it is supposed to go).  So  
> whenever I make the package, it's created without this file, which  
> apparently is where NXConstStr.h is defined for the system.  Moving  
> the file there manually fixes everything!
>
> Can someone fix this?

I'm not sure (I don't really know how all make options fit together),  
but looking at the make code I suspect that it's currently doing the  
right thing.

When you install gnustep-base the makefile is placed in the  
Additional subdirectory of the copy of gnustep-make you are using ...  
which seems exactly right as it then means you can use that gnustep- 
make to build GNUstep programs using gnustep-base.  It should not  
install relative to $GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR ... as that is the  
location that gnustep-base is supposed to be installing to, and the  
make file should go in the gnustep-make location rather than the  
gnustep-base location in order for it to work.

I imagine that, what you should be doing is building and installing  
gnustep-make in GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR and then using that  
installed copy of gnustep-make to build and install gnustep-base (and  
similarly with the gui and back libraries) so that they all get  
installed in the same location.

However, I guess this is tricky when it comes to creating packages in  
a packaging system ... I guess when creating the package the make  
file needs to be saved in the package somewhere, and when installing  
the package, the make file needs to be copied into the appropriate  
location.

So, I wouldn't go changing anything here without a say-so from Nicola.