ANN: GNUstep Binary Packages for openSUSE 12.3

[Richard Stonehouse]

                GNUstep Binary Packages for openSUSE 12.3

Introduction

   These packages give openSUSE 12.3 users a quick and easy way of
   setting up a GNUstep installation, without the need to compile
   from source.

   There are binary packages for both 32-bit (i586) and 64-bit
   (x86_64) hardware. There are three variants — one for each of these
   architectures:
     * GCC/libobjc1
     * GCC/libobjc2 and
     * Clang/libobjc2

   The packages are configured to follow the UNIX/Linux FHS file-system
   layout, so the software is installed in the places where you would
   expect to find it in an openSUSE system.

Where to Get It

   The packages are in an openSUSE-style repository at:

     http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-2.6.5/openSUSE-12.3

   A fuller version of these notes and other documentation are
   available in the repository.

Features

  Changes from Previous Version

   The main changes from the previous version (gnustep-make 2.6.0/openSUSE
   11.4) are:
    1. Based on the latest stable GNUstep packages at the time of writing
       (gnustep-make-2.6.5, gnustep-base-1.24.5, gnustep-gui-0.23.1,
       gnustep-back-0.23.0 etc). Some SVN/CVS versions of packages are
       included on an experimental basis.
    2. Built for openSUSE 12.3.
    3. Both 64-bit and 32-bit packages are provided.
    4. libobjc2 is included, together with packages built against it; a
       set of packages built against libobjc1 has been retained as well.
    5. Packages compiled under Clang are included in addition to the
       GCC-based builds.
    6. The package set has been given a more Developer-ish flavour.
       EasyDiff and Thematic are included. The multimedia packages have
       been omitted. Binaries have been built with debug=yes and are not
       stripped.

  Compatibility

    1. These packages were built using gnustep-make version 2.6.5 and
       configured for an FHS file system layout. They are not compatible
       with older versions of GNUstep, or with GNUstep software configured
       for the Windows, Mac or GNUstep traditional file system layouts.
    2. This release is intended for use on openSUSE 12.3. It is unlikely
       that it will work on other releases, due to numerous differences in
       compilers, libraries and release contents.
    3. The 64-bit Clang packages were built using llvm-clang 3.3. The
       32-bit Clang packages were built using llvm-clang 2.9, so may not
       support all the latest Clang features. Both Clang versions were
       built with --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi.
    4. The 32-bit packages should be compatible with most current 32-bit
       x86 machines. They were compiled with -march=i586 and have been
       tested (to a limited extent) on a 32-bit machine that does not have
       the SSE2 extensions.

  Known Bugs and Limitations

    1. If, after installing these packages and enabling Metadata Indexing,
       you revert to a version of GWorkspace that does not support this
       feature, the mdextractor window may appear and then hang.
    2. In the variants based on libobjc2, GWorkspace’s PDF Inspector
       displays blank pages.
    3. The version of Zipper included in this release may not correctly
       create or extract from lha archives if filenames beginning with a
       ‘-’ sign are used. This depends on the version of lha (or lhasa)
       installed on your system.
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    Richard Stonehouse