Nicola, You are a Gentleman and a scholar! I have it working, here is what I ended up doing.
1: Added these 3 lines to my ~/.xsessionrc #really ugly way to get GNUstep working export PATH="/usr/GNUstep/System/Tools:/usr/GNUstep/Local/Tools:$PATH" export GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles 2: created the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GNUstep1.conf containing: /usr/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries 3: created the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/GNUstep2.conf containing: /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries 4: ran sudo ldconfig 5: rebooted and logged in Everything appears to be working! I am happy. Your recommendation to use the configure command line switch to change install paths is a great idea but I would forget it half the time when I build something, of course most GNUstep apps don't use a config file. I am also very happy that I figured out what Ubuntu is doing (probably Debian in general) they are installing everything to /usr/lib/GNUstep and dropping symlinks into /usr/bin so they don't need GNUstep.sh Thanks for the help, that was really my goal, not only to get it working but to understand what was going on. If you are anywhere near Naples, Italy I will gladly buy you a beer. -j _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
