Re: Troubled begining

[Riccardo De Menna]

My old grandma always told me... "do it yourself" :-)
Thx Richard and Nicola... just fetched sources and did it myself  
bypassing ports and it all works nice now.

gnustep-make-2.0.4
gnustep-base-1.14.2

regards,
rdm

On 10/gen/08, at 12:23, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 10 Jan 2008, at 10:47, Riccardo De Menna wrote:
>
> > Trice for instance on the login (one for gdnc, one for gpbs and one  
> > for make_services).
> > Comparing the /usr/local/GNUstep.conf with the error I can see he's  
> > complaining of basically ALL the keys except these:
> >
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR_HEADERS=GNUstep/Library/Headers
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR_LIBRARIES=GNUstep/Library/Libraries
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR_LIBRARY=GNUstep/Library
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR_TOOLS=GNUstep/Tools
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR_WEB_APPS=GNUstep/Library/WebApplications
> > GNUSTEP_USER_DIR=GNUstep
> >
> > What's wrong? Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
> > kind regards,
>
> It looks like you have a missmatch of the package versions you are  
> using...
>
> The base library seems to be an old version and it's complaining  
> about configuration variables added by a later version of the make  
> package (make 2).
> For make version 2 I think you need base version 1.14 or later (and  
> also fairly up to date versions of any other packages).
>
> While I recommend using make version 2.x, you need to be aware that  
> the change of the major version number from 1 to 2 introduced a few  
> incompatibilities as well as a lot of improvements, so you need to  
> get recent versions of other packages as older versions may not have  
> been updated for make 2.x
> Versions of the core packages released in April 2007 or later should  
> be fine.