Re: Problem with compile

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Sep 2011, at 13:45, Jackie Gleason wrote:

> So this time I tried using the --prefix=/usr/local/GNUstep

OK ... that's yet another prefix, so you will be installing in a new location.

> "Remove all and install make with
> 
> ./configure --with-layout=gnustep"
> Ok I will try this today and post back shortly, should I include the prefix 
> still as well?

Well, that could add another layer of confusion ... I'd recommend sticking to 
the default layout rather than changing things.

> "I expect your executables should be in /usr/GNUstep/share/bin libraries in 
> /usr/GNUstep/lib and your headers in /usr/GNUstep/include"
> 
> Nope here are the ls from those folders...
> 
> address@hidden:/usr/local/GNUstep$ ls
> bin  etc  share
> address@hidden:/usr/local/GNUstep$ cd share/
> address@hidden:/usr/local/GNUstep/share$ ls
> GNUstep  man
> address@hidden:/usr/local/GNUstep/share$ cd GNUstep/
> address@hidden:/usr/local/GNUstep/share/GNUstep$ ls
> Makefiles
> 
> So as you can see no lib or libraries or any other such folder.

So you appear to have only the make package installed ...
That means either you forgot to install base, or you installed base in the 
wrong place.
The most likely reason for installing base in the wrong place would be 
forgetting to do the '. /usr/local/GNUstep/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUsterp.sh' 
to set up your environment, and having a old copy of gnustep-make around in 
your PATH which gets picked up instead (so base gets installed with the old 
copy of make).


> "then look in /tmp/GNUstep, I see the lib and include subdirectories with the 
> base library stuff in them."
> 
> There is no /tmp/GNUstep folder

Nor should there be ... you didn't configure it to install in /tmp ... you 
chose to install in /usr/local/GNUstep

Really an install of GNUstep should be VERY easy to do ...  if you follow the 
three simple stages it's difficult to get any trouble:
1. configure, build and install make
2. set up your environment from the GNUstep.sh file produced by (1)
3. build/install base and other packages in the environment set up at (2)

You seem to have succeeded at stage 1, but failed to complete stage3 ... which 
almost certainly means you've gone wrong at stage 2 and are using a 
pre-existing gnustep-make installation rather than the one you just 
built-installed.
The common (I say 'common', but they're still pretty rare) mistakes here are:
a. running GNUstep.sh rather than sourcing it with the '.' command ... so it 
doesn't actually set your shell environment variables
b. logging out and in again so the environment variables are lost before you 
build/install the rest of gnustep.
c. using 'su' or similar to become another user (eg root) and wiping your 
environment variables before building/installing the rest of gnustep.