Re: Please do not hardcode GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN in GNUmakefiles!

[David Ayers]

Am Dienstag, den 28.10.2008, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Truls Becken:
> David Ayers wrote:
> > Actually I was referring to the location into which the Makefiles
> > directory gets installed to.
> > ie:
> > /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
> > vs.
> > /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Makefiles
> >
> > Which would also have a direct impact from where GNUstep.sh should be
> > sourced from.
> 
> The location of Makefiles is actually independent of the domain roots,
> so even if make is installed in Local, the makefiles will probably end
> up in System. This totally depends on the FS layout in use, however,
> so Makefiles could be anywhere if a custom layout was used. In the
> end, you will always need to know its location before you can source
> GNUstep.sh.

I am referring to the location to which -make should install it's
makefiles and it's tools.  If -base/-gui/-core are to be installed into
the LOCAL domain if built from source, then it seems the same should
apply to -make ie. the Makefiles directory in my view.

> I guess the most "correct" way with the current make system is to
> source `gnustep-config --variable=GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES`/GNUstep.sh

OK, granted, so once you know GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES then then that's fine...
but gnustep-config get's installed into Domain of -make
(i.e. /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools currently but with Nicola's proposal I'd
expect it be installed to /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools in the future).

So where does -make install it to by default if GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES is not
set and we default to the GNUstep file system layout?

> Question to Nicola; maybe gnustep-config should be in /usr/local/bin
> to successfully provide a bridge from standard Unix hierarchy to
> whatever layout the GNUstep installation is using? The -make package
> would then need two different --prefix options, which is a bit of a
> problem.

And that proposal (installing into /usr/local/bin) was originally
rejected... well at least it wasn't followed at the time it was
introduced.

We've had this hen-egg discussion quite often on the list... but maybe
it's time to collect the variations on the Wiki.  (note I  prefer
a /etc/GNUstep/Makefile.conf file which would contain something like:
export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
or
export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Makefiles
or
export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/share/gnustep/Makefiles
or
export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/local/share/gnustep/Makefiles

But we actually already have an /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf file which
also currently gets installed into /etc/ or /usr/local/etc IIRC.  So
again we do not have reliable place to start... well unless we prefer
the local version to the system version from within the gnustep-config
script.

Cheers,
David