Re: GNUstep base now installed in Local

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 27 Nov 2008, at 23:11, Quentin Mathé wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you compile GNUstep from source, I just want let you know that  
> GNUstep base from trunk is now installed in Local domain rather than  
> System domain.
> So if you build and install GNUstep base above r27148, you should  
> run 'make uninstall' before updating to the new revision. If you  
> don't, the old library and tools installed in System will continue  
> to be used rather than the new one installed in Local. I just  
> stumbled on this problem before realizing the installation domain  
> has changed, that's why I'm mentionning it here.
>
> I suppose GNUstep GUI, Back and other applications will soon have  
> their default installation domains altered in the same way. The  
> change has been discussed on this list and gnustep-dev at the end of  
> October.
>
> So don't forget to check where things are installed if a build/ 
> install seems to have no effect ;-)

Thanks.

In theory the version of base in the local domain should be used in  
preference to the old one in the system domain, and if that's not the  
case then there is a problem somewhere that we need to fix.

However ... I can think of one case where things would temporarily  
pick up old binaries ...

Most shells cache the location of executables in their PATH.  This  
would mean that the shell will have cached the locations for tools in  
the system Toold directory and would therefore continue to use those  
binaries until you log out and log in again (or reset the cache in the  
shell some other way).

When the cache is reset, the shell should cache the new, local domain,  
locations of the tools as the local domain should appear before the  
system domain in your path.

Apart from that, the order of paths that gnustep-make sets in  
environment variables should ensure that the local domain versions of  
things are used in preference to the system domain versions.  In  
general the order of lookup should be user, then local, then network  
then system domain.