Re: Install GNUstep on a fresh Debian Jessie (S1-E2)

[Niels Grewe]

Hi Tristan,

> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/loca/lib/

You clearly have a typo there (missing ’l’ for ’local’), but I’m not sure 
whether that’s the actual problem. 

Also, since you’re explicitly asking about Debian 8, let me shamelessly plug my 
own build scripts [0] that I use regularly to build virtual machines based on 
jessie. I wouldn’t actually run those on anything but a virtual machine (they 
interfere with the system quite liberally), but they might help in case you get 
stuck somewhere.

Cheers,

Niels

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[0] https://github.com/ngrewe/gnustep-boxes

> Am 29.02.2016 um 11:29 schrieb Tristan Bellogi <bellogi@orange.fr>:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Back here after a while (I had o be finished with my previous project before 
> being 100% on this one: having a "Debian GNUstep dev-workstation".
> 
> This post is just about to help one to figure our how it could be difficult 
> to achieve this "simple" goal:
> having GNUstep "correctly" installed on a fresh Debian Jessie (8.3.x).
> I'm runing:
> Debian "Jessie Version  64-bit
> memory: 4GB
> Proc: Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU @ 2.1GHz × 2
> GCC 4.9 & GCC 5.x installed by default
> using Clang/LLVM 3.7 installed from 
> <http://llvm.org/apt/>
> 1) Using deb packages issuing a simple apt-get command:
>     - using this method, one already seems to be able to install 
> "everything"... Too many IMHO, although,it seems to concern Debian 
> maintainer(s) of the whole suite and NOT the GNUstep team...
> Thus, at least on my PC, most applications unexpectedly crash or hang out 
> until one explicitly kill it (ex. ProjectCenter), other simply won't lunch 
> (Gorm).
> To be honest I didn't try any other since I don't need  GWorkspace or a 
> SystemPreferences since PC & Gorm cant' satisfy my very first needs, actually.
> 
> 2) Using Ivucica's GNUstep-Ubuntu scripts as model to achieve a GNUstep 
> building from scratch, I'm now facing others issues:
>     - 1) svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/tools/make/trunk make
>     - 2) CC=clang-3.7 CXX=clang++-3.7 OBJC=clang-3.7 
> OBJCFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \ #***
> ./configure --with-layout=gnustep --enable-debug-by-default 
> --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi \
> -enable-native-objc-exceptions
> 
>     ***: OBJCFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
> Just because YES ObjectiveC2 is yet installed here after this set of commands:
>     a) git clone https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2.git
>     b) cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang-3.7 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++-3.7 
> \
> -DCMAKE_ASM_COMPILER=clang3.7 -DCMAKE_ASM_FLAGS=-c
> 
>     c) make -j8
>     d) make test (all succed!)
>     e) sudo -E make install
> So after 2, I got:
> checking for gcc... clang-3.7
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether clang-3.7 accepts -g... yes
> checking for clang-3.7 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... clang-3.7 -E
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether clang++-3.7 accepts -g... yes
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for library combo... gnu-gnu-gnu
> checking for apple compiler flags... yes
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for dlltool... no
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking if 'install -p' works... yes
> checking if we should use 'install -p' when installing files... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for gnm... no
> checking for gnutar... no
> checking for gtar... no
> checking for chown... chown
> checking if we should enable strict gnustep-make version 2 mode by default... 
> no
> checking for GNUstep filesystem layout to use... gnustep
> checking if we manage to import the filesystem layout configuration... ok
> checking for prefix... /usr/GNUstep
> checking for GNUstep configuration file to use... /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
> checking if we should import an existing configuration file... no
> checking for user config file to use... .GNUstep.conf
> checking if the obsolete --with-user-dir option was used... no: good
> checking for user defaults dir to use... GNUstep/Defaults
> checking for GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES to use... /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
> checking for flattened directory structure... yes
> configure: Now printing the filesystem layout configuration.
> checking for System Applications directory... /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications
> checking for System Admin Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/Admin
> checking for System Web Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/WebApplications
> checking for System Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools
> checking for System Admin Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/Admin
> checking for System Library directory... /usr/GNUstep/System/Library
> checking for System Headers directory... /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Headers
> checking for System Libraries directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries
> checking for System Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation
> checking for System Info Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/info
> checking for System Man Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Documentation/man
> checking for Network Applications directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications
> checking for Network Admin Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Admin
> checking for Network Web Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/WebApplications
> checking for Network Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools
> checking for Network Admin Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Admin
> checking for Network Library directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library
> checking for Network Headers directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Headers
> checking for Network Libraries directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries
> checking for Network Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation
> checking for Network Info Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation/info
> checking for Network Man Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation/man
> checking for Local Applications directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications
> checking for Local Admin Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Admin
> checking for Local Web Applications directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/WebApplications
> checking for Local Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools
> checking for Local Admin Tools directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools/Admin
> checking for Local Library directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library
> checking for Local Headers directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Headers
> checking for Local Libraries directory... /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries
> checking for Local Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation
> checking for Local Info Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation/info
> checking for Local Man Documentation directory... 
> /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Documentation/man
> checking for User Applications directory... GNUstep/Applications
> checking for User Admin Applications directory... GNUstep/Applications/Admin
> checking for User Web Applications directory... 
> GNUstep/Library/WebApplications
> checking for User Tools directory... GNUstep/Tools
> checking for User Admin Tools directory... GNUstep/Tools/Admin
> checking for User Library directory... GNUstep/Library
> checking for User Headers directory... GNUstep/Library/Headers
> checking for User Libraries directory... GNUstep/Library/Libraries
> checking for User Documentation directory... GNUstep/Library/Documentation
> checking for User Info Documentation directory... 
> GNUstep/Library/Documentation/info
> checking for User Man Documentation directory... 
> GNUstep/Library/Documentation/man
> checking for System User directory... /home
> checking for Network User directory... /home
> checking for Local User directory... /home
> checking for custom shared objc library... NONE
> checking for the flag to link libobjc... -lobjc
> checking whether objc has thread support... no
> checking whether Objective-C++ is supported... yes
> checking whether we should use the nonfragile ABI... yes
> checking for the flag to use to do partial linking... -Wl,-r
> checking for the GCC version... version: 4.2
> checking whether the compiler is clang... yes
> checking whether the compiler supports native ObjC exceptions... yes
> checking if the compiler supports autodependencies... yes: gcc version is 4.2 
> >= 3.0
> checking if the compiler supports precompiled headers... yes
> checking if the compiler requires -shared flag to build for Solaris... yes: 
> gcc version is 4.2 >= 4.0
> checking if we should enable 'make debug=yes' by default... yes
> checking for gmake... no
> checking for gnumake... no
> checking for make... make
> checking for the GNU Make version... version: 4.1
> checking for GNU Make >= 3.79... yes
> checking if GNU Make has the info function... yes
> checking if we should strip makefiles after installation... no
> checking if we should enable support for parallel building... yes
> checking for the version of gnustep-make we are compiling... 2.6.7
> checking for latex2html... no
> checking for bash... /bin/bash
> checking for test... /usr/bin/test
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating config-noarch.make
> config.status: creating config.make
> config.status: creating openapp
> config.status: creating opentool
> config.status: creating executable.template
> config.status: creating GNUmakefile
> config.status: creating GNUstep.conf
> config.status: creating GNUstep-strict-v2.conf
> config.status: creating GNUstep.sh
> config.status: creating GNUstep.csh
> config.status: creating fixpath.sh
> config.status: creating gnustep-make.spec
> config.status: creating gnustep-config
> config.status: creating TestFramework/gnustep-tests
> config.status: creating filesystem.make
> config.status: creating filesystem.sh
> config.status: creating filesystem.csh
> config.status: creating gnustep-make-ld.so.conf
> config.status: executing default commands
> 
> 
> At  this point, I simply run
> sudo -E make install
> update my .bashrc by adding:
> # Local Variables:
> export CC=clang-3.7                               #tell the world we're using 
> clang/llvm compiler chain
> export CXX=clang++-3.7
> export OBJC=clang-3.7
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/loca/lib/             #tell the world where to 
> find ObjC2
> 
> +. /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh #sourcing GNUstep env
> 
> 
> 
> Also run:
> echo $PATH
> /home/ylg/GNUstep/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
> 
> 
> But while doing this I just notice that:
> checking for System User directory... /home
> checking for Network User directory... /home
> checking for Local User directory... /home
> 
> 
> seem to NOT have not been created... I've a correct GNUstep tree within 
> /usr/GNUstep but no GNUstep dir within my own home, nor anywhere else...??? 
> Did I've already made a BIG mistake or miss something important ?
> Since every install scripts I've being reading begin to install the Make 
> System first, completly remove clang/llvm... In this case I of course can't 
> use --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi option in the my command...
> And of course if I choose to run upon Objc2 it is probably to be able to use 
> such a feature ;-) 
> 
> Ok, let's go further, just to see..., next step is to download the Base 
> library and build it., OK?
> At this point, running a simple: ./configure shortly ends asking me to 
> install the GNUstep Make first!?
>  
> Finally, I begin being sarcastic with myself: I'm just a poor programmer 
> trying to play with tools reserved for  more experimented ones... or maybe to 
> paraphrase the great William S. "something got rotten in the kingdom of 
> GNUstep"...
> 
> Really need help, just because I afraid that if William was right about the 
> Kingdom of Danmark, I might be right 'bout myself as programmer... :-(
> 
> Later,
> Tristan
> 
> 
> 
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