Re: broke my GWorkspace...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Gaël Elegoët wrote:
> Ok thanks, I've found it in /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles indeed.
> I had to change the group permissions from staff to root, otherwise it
> wouldn't run. Then GWorkspace compiled fine.
> But now if I do sudo make install , it says :
>
> $ sudo make install
> GNUmakefile:5: /common.make: No such file or directory
> GNUmakefile:33: /aggregate.make: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `/aggregate.make'.  Stop.
>
> even though these files are there in the Makefiles folder...
> if I try just make install , it starts installing then gives me errors :
>
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Frameworks': Permission 
> denied
> make[2]: *** [/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Frameworks] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [FSNode.install.framework.variables] Error 2
> make: *** [internal-install] Error 2

It is strange to find stuff in /usr/local/share and then installation in 
/usr/local/lib : how did you configure gnustep-make?

On Debian "sudo" clears your path.. and thus also the GNUstep 
environment vars. I am unable to use it with success even for apt-get or 
aptitude.
You might have more luck with "sudo -E".

I see two easy alternatives:
- give your group (e.g. staff) group write permission to the target 
directories (which would have been easier if it had been just 
/usr/GNUstep or /usr/local/GNUstep)
- use "su" (not su -), resource GNUstep.sh, install, exit. It is 
convenient to "make" without root permissions and just use root to install


Riccardo