Re: Release Aug 28

[Fred Kiefer]

Nicola Pero wrote:
> > > I'm going to try really hard to make a release by Saturday, Aug 28. 
> > > That's just for the make and base packages. Alex is in charge now of gui 
> > > and back, but I think he will make a release soon after.
> >
> > I would like to get the cross compilation changes into this release. I 
> > know that it isn't a great idea to change code shortly before the 
> > release, but the changes I suggest are uncritical,
>
>
> If they are uncritical, there is no reason to make those changes now.
>
> If the change is about looking for which_lib in GNUSTEP_BUILD_DIR, I think
> that's not a right change.
One negative vote is enough to delay the change, but could you please 
elaborate on why you think this change is wrong?
I tried to explain in my last mail, why I think the names GNUstep is 
using for the build and runtime environment are inconsistent with the 
ones used by autoconf and that at least for the build process we need to 
stick with the autoconf ones. You seem to disagree on this and I would 
at least like to understand your point. Searching for which_lib based on 
the machine type we are building on is something that looks rather 
natural to me.

To tune down the discussion a bit:
In the last few days I looked at the crosscompile instructions of 
various software packages. Most of them used --host=XXX-YY to specify 
the computer, where the application will later be run on. Only libtiff 
and a few others differ, and at least for this, the INSTALL instructions 
for cross compilcation did not work for me. If you have differing 
experiance cross compiling GNUstep and other packages it would be great 
if you could share them. If you just insists on the current documented 
way for GNUstep based on the fact that the GNUstep documentation tells 
to do it that way, it is a bit hard to argue with.

Fred