GNUSTEP_*_ROOT variables obsolete with gnustep-make 2.x? Some projects
have bugs in their makefiles because the way variables are used have
changed over time, and it would help if the build guide didn't
encourage use of legacy variables.
yes and no. True if they where not needed, but since I make the users
compile everything in /usr/GNUstep there needs to be some way to tell
where everything is. So there are two approaches (imho):
1) Set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (ld.so.conf is linux specific afaik and
I don't know all the options for other flavours of unix).
2) source GNUstep.sh and have it that solve the problem.
Dennis, your plan looks very good :-)
I imagine Truls was referring to your startup scripts where you use
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT and other variables that are considered obsolete
in gnustep-make v2.0 ... you may want to make your scripts more robust
(and more future-proof, not to talk encouraging new users/developers
to use the new, more powerful and general variables) by replacing these
with non-obsolete variables. ;-)
Eg, if you want to run gdomap, instead of
$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Tools/gdomap
you can now simply do
$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_TOOLS/gdomap
In fact, what about just doing 'gdomap' ? If you source GNUstep.sh, gdomap
will be in your PATH so there is nothing to do (unless you are trying to
avoid conflicting with an existing 'gdomap' on the system ?). :-)
Anyhow, I'm including here the entire 'RELEASENOTES' file from gnustep-make
v2.0.
Have a look and see if it helps you. Remember that even if you are using and
recommending the gnustep-layout (which is a very nice layout!) we're trying to
move everyone to the situation where the same software/scripts/etc. will work
on all types of layout that GNUstep supports. So it's important to update to
use the new variables ;-)
Thanks