Re: GNUstep won't build with make 4.0

[David Conrad]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Adam Fedor <fedor@gnu.org> wrote:

On Jan 13, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 13 Jan 2014, at 19:57, David Conrad <drconrad@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> InstallGNUstep does not recognize make 4.0 as being a make version > 3.75. It is apparently only looking at the minor version number.
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> The current version of gnustep-make should be checking for version 3.79 or later (including 4).
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> Looking at the ChangeLog, it seems that the requirement for 3.79+ was added in release 2.4.0 (May 2010), so if yours is checking for 3.75 it seems likely you are trying to use a release of gnustep thats about four years old (or possibly older).
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> Please could you try using the current release (you can get it from the downloads area at http://www.gnustep.org/ or get current code from svn).
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I think David is using the startup package, which probably doesn’t check correctly.

David: Also note that GNUstep most likely doesn’t work on cygwin. But it’s been a while since I’ve checked, so perhaps you might get lucky.

Adam

Yes, I was using the startup package. It turns out that there is a build of GNUstep in the Cygwin Ports collection, but I was only trying to build it to experiment with and learn Objective C, and I've found another method, so I won't be needing it. Thanks for the quick response.