Re: gnustep-make on OSX

[Helge Hess]

On Samstag, Dez 14, 2002, at 03:54 Europe/Berlin, Nicola Pero wrote:
> I only needed to fix a few flags.  I think it was supposed to, but in
> practice it wasn't setting the -framework flags properly when building
> with nx-nx-nx library-combo.  I've also dropped old NeXTstep stuff.

Hm, personally I would have kept the "old" NeXTstep stuff and created a 
new combo "apple-apple-apple" (or a-a-a ?) which does the Apple thing 
(I think I suggested that before).
But isn't really important for me either ;-)

> What I want to do is have any reasonably standard GNUmakefile of a 
> GNUstep
> project compile natively on OSX to build native OSX application /
> frameworks / bundles from the same source code.

BTW: A major problem is that Finder doesn't support reading GNUstep.sh, 
which implies that you either need to start all GNUstep related 
programs (including PBX) from the shell or patch 
.MacOSX/environment.plist to include/define all required environment 
variables statically.

> There is a particular trick which I have in mind to get there ... 
> which is
> that library.make will actually build frameworks on OSX ... but I need 
> to
> experiment with this.  :-)

Hm, good idea ! This would solve me a lot of problems and does more or 
less exactly what I need.

Nicola, could you add support for umbrella-frameworks on OSX, including 
"contained frameworks" (copying the libraries into a bigger single 
framework package) ? The reason is, I have something like 30 libraries 
which I build as frameworks on OSX, but for easier distribution collect 
them in 3 or 4 umbrella's.

Greetings
  Helge