Re: [Fwd: building GNUSTEP with Custom '--prefix=']

[Nicola Pero]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: building GNUSTEP with Custom '--prefix='
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:44:45 -0700
> From: "Calvin Mitchell" <calvinmitchell@mediaone.net>
> To: <dleeuw@made-it.com>
> 
> It should be noted that, despite running ./configure with the --prefix=
> argument,
> 
> the path
> 
> /usr/GNUstep
> 
> is hard-coded into some components of the dev-libs source tree (a few
> examples):
> 
> /guile/configure
> /guile/configure.in

Ahm - did you read (or try) the ./configure code or did you just grep for
/usr/GNUstep ... ? because this shouldn't have made any difference if you
have actually run the gnustep configuration script before configuring - it
is only a default fallback.

Anyway, to make you happy that /usr/GNUstep is not hardcoded anywhere in
gnustep-guile, and to make me happy that users run the gnustep
configuration script before complaining that it doesn't work :-), I
modified ./configure in gnustep-guile to abort immediately if
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is undefined, rather than providing /usr/GNUstep as a
silent fallback.

(I already modified ./configure in the base library to do it - some time
ago -, and my feeling is that it's helping - it prevents users (myself
included :-) from wasting time compiling and installing stuff which is
uncorrectly configured so it wouldn't work anyway.)