Re: Compile error for GNUstep on x86_64 SUSE

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Simon Walker wrote:

> Hi
>
> I received this compile error for GNUstep on SUSE x86_64, from the
> GNUstep-startup-0.23.0 package. The error is in 04-base.log, and it
> claims that I should try and recompile with the -fPIC flag.
>
> How would I go about that? Which script do I need to edit to add to
> CFLAGS? I have tried running gnustep-build's configure script with
> CFLAGS+=-fPIC but I get the error:
GNUstep always compiles with -fPIC, so that is not the problem. The  
problem is one of the system libraries on your computer (libbfd) which  
was not compiled with fPIC. You can either fix that problem, or use -- 
disable-bfd to build without bfd. With the startup package, you can do  
this:

./InstallGNUstep --config-options=--disable-bfd


> gnustep-base-1.19.1> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/build
> --with-config-file=$HOME/etc/GNUstep.conf
> ./configure: line 1401: gnustep-config: command not found
> configure: error: You must have the gnustep-make package installed and
> set up the GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES environment variable to contain the  
> path to
> the makefiles directory before configuring!

You need to make sure the path to the GNUstep files is in your PATH  
first. The easy way to do this is:

. /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

(if that is where GNUstep is installed, which it should be if you are  
using startup).