Re: Install location for libobjc2

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2 Nov 2012, at 17:47, Tom Davie wrote:

> 
> On 2 Nov 2012, at 17:41, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi again Richard,
>>> 
>>> Well, oddly, this is all working fine if I install version 1.5.1 of 
>>> libojbc2, so there must be something that has changed in the make system 
>>> since then.
>> 
>> You said:
>>> make messages=yes install though does not report any additional 
>>> information.  In addition, adding echo lines to the GNUmakefile causes them 
>>> to not be printed
>> 
>> That means that your make program is not even trying to use the GNUmakefile 
>> ... I don't see how installing anb older version of libobjc2 could effect 
>> whether your make program reads makefiles or not.
> 
> Interestingly, make messages=yes install, when carried out in the version 
> 1.5.1 source directory *does* print additional messages.
> 
> The trunk GNUmakefile includes a bunch of new stuff at the top, which notably 
> includes a call out to Makefile if it doesn't think you have a proper GNUstep 
> setup.  I suspect that this code is doing something awry!

Possibly ... but it works fine on my system ...
What does 'make --version' print for you?
What does 'make -f GNUmakefile' print?