Re: GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

[Wolfgang Lux]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 16 Sep 2010, at 05:26, David Wetzel wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > strange stuff, on my new NetBSD 5.1-RC3 box I had to #-out the  
> > line GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE
> > otherwise I got a warning even with defaults read.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > David Wetzel
> >
> > Am 10.09.2010 um 13:56 schrieb Fred Kiefer:
> >
> > > Adding the following line to the file /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf  
> > > should
> > > work around the issue:
> > >
> > > GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE=gnustep
>
> I've committed a change with a bugfix and slight improvements of  
> the comments ... so there really shouldn't be any odd warnings, but  
> maybe I've missed something.

Indeed you did. The problem is *not* an issue of the configure  
script, its a runtime error which happens independent of the target  
OS whenever you start an application or tool. (You would have noticed  
yourself if you had added a GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE to your  
own GNUstep.conf). The function ExtractValuesFromConfig in  
NSPathUtilities contains a sanity check, which reports any  
nonstandard variable that is set in one of the configuration files  
(and not listed in the GNUSTEP_EXTRA variable).

A quick workaround to get rid of the message is to add the line
  GNUSTEP_EXTRA=GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE
to ~/.GNUstep.conf and the real fix is to add a line to discard the  
GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE variable from the configuration  
dictionary in ExtractValuesFromConfig.

Wolfgang

PS Can you please revert the change to make the apple layout the  
default on Darwin systems when using the gnu-gnu-gnu combo. On OS X  
systems this configuration is supposed to coexist with the existing  
Cocoa environment and the apple-apple-apple combo, so these should  
clearly use separate layouts. I also guess that the problem of fresh  
users attempting to install GNUstep from source on OS X is not an  
issue here, since it won't work anyway unless you are really  
experienced :-).