Re: How to get a running GNUstep desktop ?

[Quentin Mathé]

Hi,

Le 16 mai 08 à 01:37, Rubens_Septimus a écrit :

> I had a GNUstep running a few weeks with Wmaker, GWorkspace and so  
> on, all
> from deb packages from Ubunutu Hardy, but with buggy printing. Well,  
> GC
> explained to me that Ubuntu packages were out of date. I was told to  
> make it
> all by myself from source, so I did it again with gnustep-startup  
> and all
> went well and pretty good at this moment. I used 'sudo -E make  
> install' to
> finish this gnustep install : oK.
>
> But things now begin complicated for my poor knowledge :
>
> If I try also to build from Etoile svn, the OgreKit can't build :
> /home/patrick/Technique/Construction_GNUstep/Etoile/Etoile/ 
> Frameworks/OgreKit/OgreKit/OGRegularExpression.h:109:
> erreur: expected specifier-qualifier-list before «regex_t»
> In file included from NSString_OgreKitAdditions.m:15:
> /home/patrick/Technique/Construction_GNUstep/Etoile/Etoile/ 
> Frameworks/OgreKit/OgreKit/OGRegularExpressionMatch.h:33:
> erreur: expected specifier-qualifier-list before «OnigRegion»
> make[5]: *** [obj/NSString_OgreKitAdditions.o] Erreur 1
> make[4]: *** [RegularExpression.all.subproject.variables] Erreur 2
> make[4]: quittant le répertoire «
> /home/patrick/Technique/Construction_GNUstep/Etoile/Etoile/ 
> Frameworks/OgreKit/Source/RegularExpression
> »
> make[3]: *** [Source.all.subproject.variables] Erreur 2
> make[3]: quittant le répertoire «
> /home/patrick/Technique/Construction_GNUstep/Etoile/Etoile/ 
> Frameworks/OgreKit/Source
> »
> make[2]: *** [OgreKit.all.framework.variables] Erreur 2
> make[2]: quittant le répertoire «
> /home/patrick/Technique/Construction_GNUstep/Etoile/Etoile/ 
> Frameworks/OgreKit
> »
> make[1]: *** [internal-all] Erreur 2

Did you install libonig and libonig-dev packages or compile oniguruma  
5 (from trunk/Dependencies/oniguruma)?
I installed Etoile on Ubuntu Hardy one week ago and everything went  
fine except some minor dependency changes (see trunk/Etoile/ 
INSTALL.Ubuntu for a list of the packages to install).

> Well, it seems I can't build anything from svn or source until  
> now... What
> else ? I can't choose to revert to a running desktop without  
> printing. Is
> FreeBSD more up to to date and more easy to get running ?

FreeBSD seems to have a well maintained collection of GNUstep and  
Etoile ports, but I never tried to use them. The GNUstep ports are  
based on the stable versions of GNUstep which suffer from the printing  
issue I think and also aren't compatible with Etoile. However I got  
told you can install unstable versions of GNUstep by defining  
WITH_GNUSTEP_DEVEL.

> I wonder what all
> the GNUstep dev use : maybe OS X ? I'm very confused...

I personally use Ubuntu as some GNUstep/Etoile devs do.

Cheers,
Quentin.