Great news, Richard. Thank you. Greg
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Richard Stonehouse < [email protected]> wrote: > > GNUstep Binary Packages for openSUSE 12.3 > > Introduction > > These packages give openSUSE 12.3 users a quick and easy way of > setting up a GNUstep installation, without the need to compile > from source. > > There are binary packages for both 32-bit (i586) and 64-bit > (x86_64) hardware. There are three variants — one for each of these > architectures: > * GCC/libobjc1 > * GCC/libobjc2 and > * Clang/libobjc2 > > The packages are configured to follow the UNIX/Linux FHS file-system > layout, so the software is installed in the places where you would > expect to find it in an openSUSE system. > > Where to Get It > > The packages are in an openSUSE-style repository at: > > > http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/**extras/GNUstep-2.6.5/openSUSE-**12.3<http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-2.6.5/openSUSE-12.3> > > A fuller version of these notes and other documentation are > available in the repository. > > Features > > Changes from Previous Version > > The main changes from the previous version (gnustep-make 2.6.0/openSUSE > 11.4) are: > 1. Based on the latest stable GNUstep packages at the time of writing > (gnustep-make-2.6.5, gnustep-base-1.24.5, gnustep-gui-0.23.1, > gnustep-back-0.23.0 etc). Some SVN/CVS versions of packages are > included on an experimental basis. > 2. Built for openSUSE 12.3. > 3. Both 64-bit and 32-bit packages are provided. > 4. libobjc2 is included, together with packages built against it; a > set of packages built against libobjc1 has been retained as well. > 5. Packages compiled under Clang are included in addition to the > GCC-based builds. > 6. The package set has been given a more Developer-ish flavour. > EasyDiff and Thematic are included. The multimedia packages have > been omitted. Binaries have been built with debug=yes and are not > stripped. > > Compatibility > > 1. These packages were built using gnustep-make version 2.6.5 and > configured for an FHS file system layout. They are not compatible > with older versions of GNUstep, or with GNUstep software configured > for the Windows, Mac or GNUstep traditional file system layouts. > 2. This release is intended for use on openSUSE 12.3. It is unlikely > that it will work on other releases, due to numerous differences in > compilers, libraries and release contents. > 3. The 64-bit Clang packages were built using llvm-clang 3.3. The > 32-bit Clang packages were built using llvm-clang 2.9, so may not > support all the latest Clang features. Both Clang versions were > built with --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi. > 4. The 32-bit packages should be compatible with most current 32-bit > x86 machines. They were compiled with -march=i586 and have been > tested (to a limited extent) on a 32-bit machine that does not have > the SSE2 extensions. > > Known Bugs and Limitations > > 1. If, after installing these packages and enabling Metadata Indexing, > you revert to a version of GWorkspace that does not support this > feature, the mdextractor window may appear and then hang. > 2. In the variants based on libobjc2, GWorkspace’s PDF Inspector > displays blank pages. > 3. The version of Zipper included in this release may not correctly > create or extract from lha archives if filenames beginning with a > ‘-’ sign are used. This depends on the version of lha (or lhasa) > installed on your system. > -- > Richard Stonehouse > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/discuss-gnustep<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep> > -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
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