Re: Install GNUstep with GNU SRC

[A. Arias]

Hi,

El dom, 07-04-2013 a las 10:37 +0200, Brandon Invergo escribió:
> 
> I'm the maintainer of GSRC. I am very interested in having all of the
> official GNUstep packages available to install and use in the
> system. However, I am generally unfamiliar with the installation and
> usage of GNUstep and I haven't been able to thoroughly verify it yet
> other than to make sure that it builds and installs correctly (which is
> why some packages aren't present; I haven't been able to build them
> correctly yet). 


Some packages are unmaintained and will not compile with recent versions
of its requisites. For example the guile package.

> So, actually, I would greatly appreciate it if someone
> would be willing to give it a try!


I will do a test at weekend.

> 
> For those who are unfamiliar with GSRC, it's a BSD Ports-like system
> that automates the process of downloading, extracting, configuring,
> building and installing of GNU software from source. So, installing
> GNUstep Workspace is as simple as:
> 
>     make -C gnustep/gworkspace install


As I understand GSRC should tell me the dependencies I need install, in
the case that these aren't gnu packages, right?

> 
> If you experience any problems or if you need any help, please don't
> hesitate to send a message to me or (preferably) to bug-gsrc@gnu.org and
> I'll work on it!
> 
> Cheers,
> Brandon