Re: Issue: GNUstep installation on Ubuntu 16.04

[Mark Clements]

Excellent - thank you.

Is there an acronym similar to RTFM for reading the mail list archives?

Kindly, Mark.

On 05/14/2017 05:42 PM, Patryk Laurent wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> This may be related to an issue reported by Josh Freeman on this list in late 
> April (4/23). The crashes he observed also had to do with graphics.
>
> To work around it I think he simply checked out slightly older versions of 
> the GNUstep repos.  Josh provided an altered compilation script to do this as 
> an attachment to his emails to the list. 
>
> Regards,
> Patryk
>
>> On May 14, 2017, at 07:37, Mark Clements <mark.clements@ki.se> wrote:
>>
>> I am having problems installing GNUstep on Ubuntu 16.04.
>>
>> I uninstalled all GNUstep packages and cleared /usr/GNUstep and
>> /usr/local/lib/GNUstep. Then I followed the instructions from
>> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_under_Ubuntu_Linux. Running
>> the test at the end using
>>
>> make
>> openapp ./GUITest.app
>>
>> gave a segmentation fault. I then tried running the test programs using
>> the command line and they worked. The problem seemed to be that the
>> arguments -lgnustep-base -lgnustep-gui were not passed to
>> $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES. Does anyone know why?
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux L0311MEB 4.4.0-78-generic #99-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 27 15:29:09 UTC
>> 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> clang --version
>> clang version 3.8.0-2ubuntu4 (tags/RELEASE_380/final)
>> Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> Thread model: posix
>> InstalledDir: /usr/bin
>>
>> It would be really nice to use libobjc2 and libdispatch. Is there an
>> alternative installation route on Ubuntu?
>>
>> Kindly, Mark.
>>
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