Thank you all gentlemen for your helps. I think that I really know so little about the OS and GNUstep..
I'm now with Ubuntu 8.10. Hope represent an average user taking advantage of ubuntu's easy system setup. Even http://svn.gna.org/svn/etoile/trunk/Etoile/INSTALL.Ubuntu gives a very detailed list of Dependencies, get all the libs in place is still not a trivial job. lib names changes: I have to spend time find out, say libGL, in terms of ubuntu is what... I think some way to check the existence of libs will help. The dependency doc like http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide already did very good job but it still have for me to check the existence of them and get the right thing to install before compiling GS packages. Anyway, I think that I'm pretty close to build GNUstep now. Actually I did compiling/installing of make, foundation, gui and back one by one. Seems ok. I also compiled and tried ProjectCenter, it seems working. I've seen these: checking sys/mntent.h usability... no checking sys/mntent.h presence... no But I got numerous errors compiling gnustep-examples-1.2.0 and Renaissance-0.8.0. Looks like the make cannot find the files to import. Build PDFKit-0626095 failed: checking whether to use freetype2 library... (cached) /lib checking where to find the freetype2 header files... (cached) /include/freetype2 configure: error: argument must be a directory make[2]: *** [Makefile] Error 1 make[1]: *** [internal-all] Error 2 make: *** [PDFKit.all.framework.variables] Error 2 When configure GWorkspace, get msg checking dir.h usability... no checking dir.h presence... no checking for dir.h... no checking for getmntinfo... no checking for sys/mntent.h... no checking for struct mntent.mnt_dir... yes checking for struct mntent.mnt_mountp... no checking for getmntent in -lsun... no checking for getmntent in -lseq... no checking for getmntent in -lgen... no checking dir.h usability... no checking dir.h presence... no More seriously, I can go through making GWorkspace ok but it cannot run from command: 2008-11-26 13:05:59.617 GWorkspace[25271] Did not find correct version of backend, falling back to std. 2008-11-26 13:05:59.695 GWorkspace[25271] NSApplication.m:285 Assertion failed in initialize_gnustep_backend. Unable to find backend back Aborted I did tried to install things from ubuntu packages, don't know where is goes, I just uninstalled all of ubuntu gunstep packages from package manager. /usr/GNUstep is the place to install gnustep manually, according to the guide. Thanks for your help again. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gnustep-debian-app-developer-env-setup-%28help-needed%29-tp20327165p20708769.html Sent from the GNUstep - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
