Re: Graphos.app : error whith make

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Ivan and the GNUstep Masters,

I can confirm these things :

1) The core GNUstep has been installed from the regular deb packages, 
i.e. the meta-package 'gnustep'.
2) The only apps I made myself from sources were Graphos and StepSync.
3) And I could achieve to make those after "unseting" the obsolete var.
4) Looking inside the GNUstep.sh, and then GNUstep.conf, I found that 
the obsolete var was not defined there.

So I tried different combinations of :
+ X Login : wdm, slim...
+ X window manager : wmaker, openbox...
+ And GWorkspace, Terminal...

Doing that, I could isolate the case where the obsolete var was declared : 
obviously, it is due to WindowMaker.
The wersion of WindowMaker installed from raspbian Buster is : 
Window Maker 0.95.8 

Other thing : the case of GNUstep apps installed from raspbian and not 
loading from GWorkspace (#o, etc.) seems not related to the obsolete var, 
because I could reproduce the problem with other window manager, 
where the obsolete var is not declared.

I am searching now where and how WindowMaker define the obsolete var.

Le 19/05/20 à 23:17, Ivan Vucica a écrit :
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:06:47AM +0200, Patrick Cardona via Discussion list 
> for the GNUstep programming environment wrote:
> > Hi Ricardo,
> > 
> > As You and Fred suggested, the unset method dit it well.
> > 
> > My GNUstep environment has been set in a new fresh raspbian installation 
> > (Buster) : so it is clean : no older GNUstep installation.
> > So your hypothesis about a conflict between WindowMaker, wdm and 
> > the gnustep metapackage from raspbian seems to be a clue.
> > I try to investigate this.
> 
> To confirm, you *only* installed gnustep-make, gnustep-base, gnustep-gui etc
> from Raspbian repositories? You have *not* attempted to install GNUstep from
> Raspbian repositories, and then attempted to upgrade using the source code we
> provide?
> 
> This will be an unsupported configuration, and you should not attempt to
> simultaneously have installed the packaged core libraries and core libraries
> built from source. (You can, of course, build libs and apps beyond the core
> libraries once you've picked *exactly one origin* of -make and -base 
> binaries.)
> 
> From the way you phrased it, I believe you aren't attempting to do this, but
> I'd like to confirm and be clear that this is the situation you're in. If I
> remember correctly, uninstalling Debian (therefore also Raspbian) packages may
> leave some files around, such as /etc/GNUstep.conf, possibly even GNUstep.sh.
> 
> If you choose to build one of the core libraries, you should carefully clean
> *everything* installed by the packages provided by your distro.

-- 
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA