Re: [bug #41125] -make documentation is un-installable

[Markus Hitter]

Am 08.01.2014 14:54, schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> On 8 Jan 2014, at 12:38, Markus Hitter <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you. That's entirely the point. Because in some environments
>> there is no "last installed version of gnustep-make".
> 
> I'd still like to know why you can't set one up?

Simply set it as a given. Else you'd have to learn how cross-compilation
and/or packaging (which is pretty much cross-compilation with target ==
host) works.

> Since defining GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES to ../ before running make is
> telling it that gnustep-make is installed in ../ this has a good
> chance of working perfectly.
> 
> But, if the normal install process changes the layout of files at all
> (ie the relationships between the installed files is not the same as
> the relationships between them before installation),  there might be
> some problems;

Then simply don't let this happen. -make is in full control of the
situation, code possibly bringing up the problems you describe would
have yet to be written. All we apparently need is the GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES
location and the contents _inside_ this one doesn't change with the
various filesystem layouts.


Markus

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