Am 10.09.2010 21:56, schrieb David Chisnall:
> On 10 Sep 2010, at 20:40, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
>> Am 10.09.2010 18:10, schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
>>> Author: rfm
>>> Date: Fri Sep 10 18:10:10 2010
>>> New Revision: 31321
>>>
>>> URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep?rev=31321&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> Change to more sane default filesystem layout
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>    tools/make/trunk/ChangeLog
>>>    tools/make/trunk/GNUstep.conf.in
>>>    tools/make/trunk/configure
>>>    tools/make/trunk/configure.ac
>>
>> I just tried to compile GNUste make and am getting the following error:
>>
>>
>> checking for GNUstep filesystem layout to use... Can not find
>> ./FilesystemLayouts/native
>> Please check your --with-layout=xxx argument and try again.
>> make: *** [config.make] Fehler 1
> 
> Ah, I thought I'd broken something in my local checkout - glad it isn't just 
> me.
> 
>> Now this just looks like some missing file in this commit. But it also
>> looks like the default file system layout was silently changed. I never
>> used "native" and for the time being I don't intend to do so.
>> Could you please provide the missing files and switch back the default
>> file system layout to what it used to be? And if we really want to
>> change it, we should at least discuss it on the mailing list in advance.
> 
> Apparently we're now defaulting to the FHS layout (Fred!  I'm surprised you 
> didn't check the ChangeLog, which seems to explain this...).  

You got me there :-)


> I'd also like there to have been some discussion of this before it became the 
> default.  We do not support the FHS layout for Étoilé, and several parts of 
> Étoilé are known to be broken when using it.  

Adding the following line to the file /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf should
work around the issue:

GNUSTEP_FILESYSTEM_LAYOUT_FILE=gnustep


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