Re: not exactly a bug, but a really annoying thing

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Feb 2009, at 20:15, Mauro Panigada wrote:

> I had installed gnustep-base 1.16 few times ago. It was my first
> fresh from source installation of GNUstep; of course I followed
> all the step described here:
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/gnustep-howto_3.html
>
> Today I've seen that a new version of gnustep-base (and gnustep-gui  
> and gnustep-back)
> was available, so I downloaded them ... I supposed everything should
> have been smooth as for my first installation. But I was wrong.
>
> After a fast reading, I decided to feed the configure script with
> --prefix=/usr
> since it was the configuration from the previous installation, that  
> went into
> /usr/GNUstep, and with
> --with-installation-domain=SYSTEM
> since it was the previous configuration, I did not want to change  
> it, and
> it sounds quite logical (if GNUstep Base is not a "system" stuffs,  
> whatelse is?)
>
> My common behaviour when using the configure/make/make install  
> procedure is
> to run the first two command as common user, and the switch to root  
> just for
> the installation part.
>
> The configure was ok, with my own specified prefix and domain. But  
> when I
> run make, output says
>
>        if [ SYSTEM != LOCAL ]; \
>        then \
>          GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL ./config.status -- 
> recheck; \
>        fi

You forgot to specify the installation domain when you ran make ...  
which means it used the default domain (LOCAL).
Since you told it (implicitly) to install in the LOCAL domain, but had  
previously configured it for the SYSTEM domain, it had to re-configure  
itsself in order to follow your new instructions.
That's a little confusing, so the current code in svn trunk will print  
out an error message and stop in this situation, in case what you  
actually wanted was what you first specified (at configure time)  
rather than what you specified at build/install time.