Re: problems building - faiiling due to autogsdoc

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:55:12 +0100
Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> Please don't do that ... instead, track down the cause of the problem
> and supply a fix, so other people don't have the problem in future.
> However, if --disable-procfs  gets rid of the symptom. it's probably
> a good idea to look at what information the operating system is
> providing to the procfs code in NSProcessInfo.
> 1. there could be a bug in GNUsteps handling of procfs, which could be
> fixed.
> 2. there could be a bug in BSDs procfs, for which we could get
> autoconf to enable a workaround (or disable procfs support if it is
> horribly broken).

IIRC, I reported that /procfs problem a good 1 year a go (could be even
more). GNUstep tries to access a couple of entries which simply do not
exist, like /procfs/self/exe (or sth like that) on BSD.

The answer I got back was: "then use --disable-procfs" ...

-- 
Chris