Hi Fred, Many thanks for the careful, informative reply to my GNUstep installation problem. Using 0.22.0 worked like a charm.
All good wishes. david On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 20:07 +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: > david hill wrote: > > After ensuring all required modules were present (except fficall which I > > was instructed would be loaded during the installation process) I > > attempted installation -- having su'd to root -- but after seemingly > > come near completion, the installation failed, and instructed me to send > > the attached file to you for help. I did a chown to give my normal > > account ownership and attach it herewith. > > > > I am using a different account than normal for this email, since I am on > > a different machine running Red Hat Scientific Linux 5.1.19.6 on an AMD > > Athlon 3000+ processor on an ASUS K8V-X motherboard* at 2GHz, 500 MB > > main memory and more than 8GB of disk storage. > > > > *K8V-X-UAYZ Part Number 90-M9L0D0-GOUAYZ, serial 4CMM3H2411 > > Hi David, > > the important error message is in the file logs/05-gui.log: > > trampoline: cannot make memory executable > > This means that ffcall failed to work on your machine. As you can see > from the output in logs/04-base-config.log, the configuration process > and from the file logs/installgnustep.log as well, this library was used > instead of ffi for the invocation abstraction. > > The most likely reason for this is that you are using a system which > protects against the execution of data segments and ffcall is not > supported on that system. ffi would do the trick here, so installing > this before compiling GNUstep should work. > > Now GNUstep is already supporting this in its startup script, so why is > it failing for your? You are using GNUstep Startup 0.19.3 and 0.22.0 is > the most current one. I would expect that if you just get a current > version of GNUstep things will compile for you. Just make sure to move > the old failed installation out of the way. > > Hope this helps > Fred _______________________________________________ Bug-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnustep
