Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[David Chisnall]

On 15 Dec 2008, at 11:18, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2008, at 11:00, David Chisnall wrote:
> > I still don't fully understand the rationale for moving system  
> > packages out of System.
>
> That would be because system packages haven't been moved out of  
> System there's no plan to ever move them.

Okay, that's good to here.

> What's happened is a change to avoid people (GNUstep newbies in  
> particular) accidentally overwriting system packages with their non- 
> system locally built versions.

Often this is the desired behaviour when building locally.  If I have  
installed GNUstep from ports then compile it myself, I want  
applications installed subsequently, from ports or manually, to link  
against the new version, since it typically works better than the old  
one (and if it doesn't, then I can look for bugs more easily if more  
things are using it).

Perhaps the best solution would be to provide a script which set the  
prefix.  When compiling stuff myself that I don't want to interfere  
with system packages, I typically run configure --prefix=/opt/ 
$PACKAGE_NAME (it's a bit of a SysV thing to do, but simplifies things  
a lot).

Presumably I can do the same thing with GNUstep Make and just make  
sure I source the correct version of GNUstep.sh from there?  I've not  
actually tried having two copies of GNUstep Make installed, so I'm not  
sure...

David