Re: How to get a running GNUstep desktop ?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 19 May 2008, at 17:46, Rubens_Septimus wrote:

> Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> > Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> >
> > > I think your GNUstep.sh/GNUstep.csh is not sourced correctly or,
> > > worse, your environment is getting reset.
> > > I get a similar error when I try to do "sudo make install" where
> > > sudo (partially) resets the environment.
> >
> > For that reason I have got accustomed to using the slightly more
> > complicated
> >
> >   sudo make install DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"   (on OS  
> > X)
> >   sudo make install LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"       (other
> > platforms)
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> >
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> Hi,
>
> I am about to rebuild all cleanly applying your method :
> sudo make install LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
> Because I could build something with sudo and others with sudo -s,  
> but with
> many warnings and really can't get nothing finally working well  
> together :
> GWorkspace freeze, GNUMail preferences don't show, and so on.  Maybe  
> bundles
> or libraries are not correctly linked. Don't know. I wonder I should  
> use
> GNUstep svn and not startup...
>
> See you all later; after a rebuild them all... :working:

I think Nicola gave the correct advice ...
Do 'make' as yourself (ie a non-root user),  then do 'make install' as  
root.
That way there should be no need for messing about setting environment  
variables.