RE: gnustep-make experiment

[Matt Rice]

On 2007-01-24 04:17:17 -0800 Nicola Pero 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> > attached is just sort of an experiment in getting rid of GNUstep.sh 
> > to 
> > compile stuff
>
> If you use trunk, you don't need GNUstep.sh to compile stuff ... ;-)
>
> 1. add /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries and 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries to /etc/ld.so.conf and run 
> ldconfig
>
> 2. add /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools and /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools to your 
> PATH
>
> 3. set GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
>
> and you're ready to go.  Once we use FHS, then libraries and tools 
> will 
> automatically be in your PATHs, so you would need to:
>
> * do nothing to use GNUstep
>
> * set the single variable GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES to compile GNUstep stuff
>
> and you can also easily switch between different installations by 
> using 
> configuration files.
>
> Thanks
>
> PS: investigations are still welcome though ;-)

In that case I still think that pkg-config support would be 
worthwhile, as GNUstep is then totally isolated
theres no way for an external shell script/autoconf to know anything 
about GNUstep really
since GNUstep.conf put anywhere and they can no longer rely on 
environment variables,

I've come across at least 2 instances of needing the environment 
variables
GDL2 needs to attempt to link to the Gorm libraries to see if it 
should enable building of the GDL2 Gorm palette
and in porting aquaterm, and the gnuplot adaptor for aquaterm, it 
needs to also look for a lib in the GNUstep heirarchy
to enable that.