some feedback

[Francesco Abbate]

Hi,

this is not a bug report. I only give you some feedback about GNUstep
compiling and installation.

I've downloaded :
  gnustep-make-1.0.1.tar.gz
  gnustep-objc-1.0.1.tar.gz
  gnustep-base-1.0.1.tar.gz
  gnustep-gui-0.6.8.tar.gz
  gnustep-xgps-0.6.8.tar.gz
  gnustep-examples-0.9.1.tar.gz

I've (quite) carefully readed the installation instruction.

1) The mirror ftp://archive.progeny.com in not up to date.
2) When I've attempted to compile gnustep-xgps I got an error in the
linking stage. The reason is that the makefile does not include the X11
libraries. The only solution that I've find has been to manually compile
including also "-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lXmu". All this although in
the configuration stage I specified "./configure --with-x
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib"
3) After I had successfully installed all the libraries I've tried to
compile the examples of the gnustep-examples package, but doing make I got
errors again because:
   - the makefile does not include "-lgnustep-xgps" in the linking stage (
it dows include -lgnustep-gui two times )
   - the makefile again does not include the X11 library
Again I've solved this problem by manually compile the files.

Finally, after the fight, I've got a working examples :-)

I would be gratefully to you if you can explain to me the correct way to
let GNUmakefile includes the X11 libraries and the gnustep-base libraries
every time is needed.

I've also a question for you:
Are the gnustep-base library suitable for writing non-graphical and
non-GNUstep application in Objective C ?
Some times ago I've heard of "libobjects". Which of those library should I
use for writing my Objective C - non GNUstep applications ?

best regards,
--
Francesco Abbate
E-mail: france.abbate@tiscalinet.it | france77@users.sourceforge.net