On May 22, 2008, at 4:26 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:
Please let me know if you have any feedback on my patch below, or if
you think it is ready to commit.
The only (purely aestethical) change I'd make is I'd put make sure
GNUSTEP_ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_PATHS gets set to '' if not running on
Mac OS X ...
On May 18, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Nicola Pero wrote:
1) Update configure.ac in gnustep-make so it prints a warning if the
user is on darwin and uses a filesystem layout other than 'apple'.
This warning will tell the user they need to either set
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH in their
1) Update configure.ac in gnustep-make so it prints a warning if the
user is on darwin and uses a filesystem layout other than 'apple'.
This warning will tell the user they need to either set
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH in their shell's environment
as well as in
Nicola,
Sounds good. I will put together a patch to do the following:
1) Update configure.ac in gnustep-make so it prints a warning if the
user is on darwin and uses a filesystem layout other than 'apple'.
This warning will tell the user they need to either set
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and
Hi Blake,
thanks for your interesting and useful comments - and good patch. The
patch is good, but it's a hot issue. ;-)
I'm not sure what the solution is. I understand the obvious pros of your patch,
but there are also some cons - I'll mention some. Ultimately we
probably just need to make
I don't think that's a problem, as you're supposed to use DESTDIR when
installing to a different (temporary) location. Still it might be nice
to make the patch configurable.
Thanks - good point/correction - I always thought that DESTDIR was a general
tool
that could also be used in
Hi Nicola,
Thank you for the extensive feedback. It appears to me that your
suggestion is that we go with what I described as option 1 (tell users
on OS X they need to use the apple filesystem). This is a reasonable
solution to me. I think it would be wise to add some checking to
Blake,
yes I like your option 1. as the general option to give to the 'average' user
because it really should work well if the user just wants something that
works. Things will work 'out of the box' with no intervention, will install
straight into the Apple recommended locations, and work
I plan to apply the following patch to gnustep-make, but would like to
see if anyone has any feedback against doing so first. The purpose of
this patch is to set the install_name on Mac OS X to an absolute
(rather than relative) path for libraries and frameworks. My reason
for doing this
