Re: how to install a tool into GNUSTEP_*_ADMIN_TOOLS

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Dec 2007, at 07:41, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to figure out how I can install a admin tool into the  
> directory
> pointed by the various GNUSTEP_*_ADMIN_TOOLS variables.
> So first I tried to rename the TOOL_NAME statement in the  
> GNUmakefile to
> ADMIN_TOOL_NAME, but that did not work at all.
> Then I waded through the makefiles, but wherever these variables  
> are used,
> it seems it is only used to build the PATH environment variable.

To control where a tool 'mytool' is installed, you need a line of the  
form
mytool_INSTALL_DIR = xxx
in your makefile.

For instance, to install gdomap in the system admin area you could write

gdomap_INSTALL_DIR = $(GNUSTEP_ADMIN_TOOLS)


> I tried to take a look how gdomap is installed, but first it is a  
> CTOOL, and
> second it also ends up in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/local/sbin  
> where I
> expected it.

I guess because gnustep has never used a separate 'Admin' area for  
anything.
I don't think we have a policy on what gnustep tools (if any) should  
go in the admin area.