I retried everything without using --prefix and no dice. Jackie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Jackie Gleason <[email protected]>wrote: > I did use the prefix option but I also tried without but I can try again > otherwise that is the order I did things. > > The weird thing is when I install gnumake it installs into a directory like > the following... > > /usr/GNUstep/share/GNUstep/MakeFiles > > I am wondering if there is an issue there. > > Thanks to everyone for all of their help. > On Sep 25, 2011 4:58 PM, "Richard Frith-Macdonald" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 24 Sep 2011, at 17:56, Jackie Gleason wrote: > >> > >> I install and Compile GNUstep by checking out the anonymous core, then > compiling in the order make, base, gui, back. I compile all of them using > the following command (under sudo shell).. > >> > >> ./configure --prefix=/usr/GnuStep > >> make > >> make install > >> > >> After make I run the following... > >> . /usr/GnuStep/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh > > > > I'm not sure if you actually did exactly what you said ... but that's not > what the HOWTOs tell you to do, and may well account for things being rather > messed up. > > > > The correct order to do things in is: > > > > 1. Configure and install make (you can use the --prefix option for this > if you want) > > > > 2. Source the GNUstep.sh script to set up your environment > > > > 3. Configure, build and install the other packages *without* using > --prefix > > > > The reason for this order is that everything apart from make is designed > to be handled by gnustep-make, and the build process will take care of > installing stuff in the correct place depending on how the make package was > configured. If you use --prefix= with the other packages, you will probably > be overriding the correct locations, and putting things where they are not > expected (so headers/libraries won't be found later when you try to use > them). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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