Re: GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT separated from GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT

[Helge Hess]

Hi,

I have modified gstep-make configure.in to support --with-user-root and
--with-local-root options and in most SKYRIX installations we use
USER=LOCAL=NETWORK=SYSTEM root. Unfortunatly this modification is quite
old and probably can't be 'just used' for the CVS HEAD gstep-make.

The only problem I'm aware of is that sometimes people incorrectly setup
gstep-make to have USER_ROOT=SYSTEM_ROOT but a different LOCAL_ROOT.
This way LOCAL_ROOT libs can't override SYSTEM_ROOT stuff anymore ...
difficult to find ...

Greetings
  Helge

Nicola Pero wrote:
> Matthias Klose asked me if it would be possible to allow the
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT to be completely separated from the
> GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, ie in Debian they want to do something like -
> 
> GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT = /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT  = /usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Local/
> 
> Because it seems their filesystem policies do not like having the
> Local root under /usr/ - they want it under /usr/local/.
> 
> Any points against this change ?
> 
> Any complicated stuff to do to make it work you are aware of ?
> 
> A different GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT would be triggered by using an option
> to configure gnustep-make.  The weird GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT would be
> somewhat saved into your GNUstep.sh.
> 
> Would this change break something in the bundle code ?

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