GNUstep packaging by TWW tools

[T.J. Yang]

I am not a software engineer so I can't help on  swapping  out xlib with 
cairo type of projects.

but I want to have a FreeBSD type of packaging build system to maintain 
GNUstep.

"make gnustep-core-1.10" will unpack,patch,configure and build gnustep 
software components.

It is very wasteful of compute/time resources to require everyone to compile 
gcc(with objc) if one is interested about running gnustep. GNUStep LiveCD is 
good but an easy way to install gnustep onto existing installed OS is even 
better.

For now, I am using Solaris 10 intel for packaging gnustep by TWW tools 
(R1).
The goal is to make installation of gnustep very easy across OS platform.

My plan
1. prepare gcc-4.1.1 for Solaris 10 intel (U2, 06/2006 version) first and 
down port lower version solaris and sparc cpu.

bash-3.00# /opt/gcc411/bin/gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-pc-solaris2.10
Configured with: /opt/build/gcc-4.1.1/configure --enable-nls 
--enable-threads --disable-maintainer-mode --enable-shared --enable-libgcj 
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc --datadir=/opt/gcc411/share --with-gnu-as 
--with-as=/opt/gcc411/i386-pc-solaris2.10/bin/as 
--with-local-prefix=/opt/gcc411 --prefix=/opt/gcc411
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS b-solx86-10 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.00#

2. package the gnustep core software(make,base,gui).

3. release package sources

4. Lobby gnustep development community to use TWW tool so
  TWW CPAM tool can help GNUstep's CPAD.
  This will be hard because asking people to switch to different tools 
using
  different processes.


Goal:

"/opt/bin/pkg-inst gnustep-2.0", will install gnustep-core and gnustep apps 
automatically.

will install gnustep and its depended software clusters.

This is a hobby project and subject to my free time.


References:
R1. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/CPAM_with_TWW/User_Guide

T.J. Yang

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