[bug #13866] cannot change user-root with ./configure

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #13866 (project gnustep):

Having spent some time looking at this and thinking about it, I think there
are a few issues here.

1. While the move to using a configuration file read at runtime to define
locations of directories/resources has been going on for a while and was
discussed a lot on the mailing lists ... I don't think it's been well
documented in the release notes etc ... which is a problem.

2. Though the use of the config file makes old make package config options
irrelevant, they should probably still have been removed.  I guess we might
also want to remove some environment variables and the user_home program.

3. I think the current setup is actually likely to be problematic for some
people who put user directories in non-standard places ... the make system
sets up PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables to point to
user-specific libraries and tools/applications, and if it gets this wrong,
those libraries/programs won't be found.

To solve (3), I think it would be enough to install a tool with the base
library to provide the paths for the user libraries/executables (analogous to
the old user_home program in the make package), and have the make package use
it to set up PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in GNUstep.sh, but this does need a new
(trivial) tool in the base package and requires changes to the make package
coordinated with its addition.




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