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

[Dennis Leeuw]

I just forwarded the mail, I am currently too busy with other stuff.

Sorry.

Dennis

Nicola Pero wrote:

> > -------- 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.)

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