Re: broke my GWorkspace...

[Fred Kiefer]

Am 11.10.2015 um 18:00 schrieb Gaël Elegoët <galgot@free.fr>:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:00:33 +0200
> Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Better keep this on the mailing list otherwise you will have to write
>> the same mail to Riccardo too.
>> 
>> To me this looks like you uninstallation didn't clean up correctly.
>> It is hard to tell what was left over, but Riccardo's idea that it
>> might be a defaults file is a starting point. You will have to check
>> for yourself whether any of the newer GNUstep libraries are still
>> present. I am a bit worried that you failed to compile GNUstep on
>> your machine. This should be fairly simple. The best starting point
>> will be to uninstall the Debian GNUstep components first. The order
>> of the components you gave in your mail was also wrong. Start off
>> with GNUstep make, base, gui, then back and finally your application
>> code. You will have to add a few development packages before you may
>> start this, but that is surely documented for Debian somewhere in the
>> GNUstep wiki.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> Fred
>> 
>> On the road
>> 
>> Am 11.10.2015 um 12:23 schrieb Gaël Elegoët <galgot@free.fr>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your answer.
>>> Here is a more detailled report:
>>> My GWorkspace version is 0.8.8, GNUStep 7.7, GNUstep-base-common
>>> 1.22.1, GNUstep-back-common 0.20.1, all from the Debian 7 repo.
>>> 
>>> And that's the things i've done: tried compiling and installing
>>> GNUstep-base 1.24.8, GNUstep-back-0.24.1, Gnustep-gui-0.24.1,
>>> GNUstep-make-2.6.7, and GWorkspace-0.9.3.
>>> Managed to compile GNUstep-base-1.24.8, but the others would fail.
>>> so decided to uninstall every thing related to GNUstep via Synaptic,
>>> then re-install the versions from the Debian 7 repo.
>>> For uninstalling I've ckecked "Mark for complete removal" (that
>>> removes even the configuration files).
>>> After that uninstall , I've re-installed GNUstep 7.7 from the
>>> Debian 7 repo, and now I have these problems with GWorkspace.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Gaël
> 
> Hi, me again :)
> 
> So I completely uninstalled the GNUstep from the Debian 7 repo.
> Then compiled and installed all in the order you've said,
> -make, -base, -gui and -back. 
> All worked well this time ! many thanks. must have been the order in
> which I was installing...
> Now tried compiling GWorkspace-0.9.3. It asks me to run the GNUstep
> initialization script first (GNUstep.sh) before doing ./configure.
> But I have no GNUstep.sh script in /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles.
> So I've tried taking one from another debian 7 running machine with
> GNUstep from the Debian repo installed and putting it into the
> Makefiles folder. But when I try to run it it asks for other scripts,
> "filesystem.sh" and "print_unique_pathlist.sh"...
> Do you know how I could get a GNUstep.sh running ?

If you did install GNUstep make, then there is one. Most likely in /usr/local, 
but it is best to start a search for it. 

find / -name GNUstep.sh -print