Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r31321 - in /tools/make/trunk: ChangeLog GNUstep.conf.in configure configure.ac

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi
> The reason is that we are making changes to make GNUstep more "standard" for 
> the average
> Unix user.  And standard configure scripts don't magically pull out 
> installation directories
> by looking at a similar package already installed somewhere on the machine.  
> That would
> be confusing for the average new "Unix" user who expects configure to obey the 
> flags that it
> is passed and nothing else.
>
> No matter what they are doing, they would not expect that behaviour, and would 
> be very annoyed
> when they discover that configure is behaving in some different, unusual and 
> surprising way
> (no matter how clever it is).
>
>    
by learning more about the FHS and GNUstep layout differencies, I 
learned that even for the GNUstep layout we create links to the binary 
executables of each applications inside the Tools dir. I think this is 
dirty and it leaves garbage around. Application should be started using 
openapp / gopen. Or using NSWorkspace.

While this link is sensible in the FHS layout, it is expendable with the 
GNUstep one. Can it be made an option? Supposing to configure make with 
the gnustep layout and this option disabled, no link should be created  
for the apps.

Sadly the library links need to remain...

Riccardo