Hi Everyone, I’ve been reading through the gnustep-discuss thread "GNUstep Public Relations" and this is something I would like to help with if there’s a need. I’m wondering if there’s a published plan or a set of goals the project is working towards and interested parties could take on the task?
I’ve been following GNUstep off and on for a long time and I’m just re-familiarizing myself with everything. I just gave the gnustep-web-install-dev script a try as per the instructions on gnustep.org but unfortunately it didn’t work. After displaying the ascii art I got: IMPORTANT! You must update your .ssh directory so it contains your github ssh key Begin setup for linux bash: line 45: ./setup-linux: Permission denied ======== Create gnustep build directories ======== Cloning into 'tools-scripts'... The authenticity of host 'github.com (140.82.112.4)' can't be established. ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:+DiY3wvvV6TuJJhbpZisF/zLDA0zPMSvHdkr4UvCOqU. This key is not known by any other names Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes Warning: Permanently added 'github.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. ... After this I tried out the slightly different script/instruction shown on gnustep.github.io site (gnustep-web-install) This one worked a bit better for me: Begin setup for linux ./setup-linux: line 7: /etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory sudo command is already present. Checking if root password is not set, please set it... Adding steven to sudoers... Please enter the root user's password. Password: su: Authentication token manipulation error ======== Create gnustep build directories ======== Cloning into 'tools-scripts’… That error show shown in setup-linux line 7 is because I am running Slackware, which does not have /etc/lsb-release but it does have /etc/os-release Having said that I would like to work on a “install-dependencies-slackware” script and maybe fix up the gnustep-web-install script to cater for Slackware also. I don’t know how to go about contributing changes or documentation or anything else like that, is there a process? Do changes get reviewed by someone? The other issue I did have with the gnustep-web-install script is the post installation failed: ... GNUmakefile:31: Unable to obtain GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES setting from gnustep-config! … Once I manually fixed up my path, the post-install-linux script runs, but it fails because it can’t link Gorm with libdispatch. Taking a closer look I see that it is built as part of gnustep-web-install but is installed in /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libdispatch.so <http://libdispatch.so/> which is not in ld’s path. I created /etc/ld.so <http://ld.so/>.conf.d/gnustep.conf containing the path, ran ldconfig and the post install linking completed. So the good news is there’s only a few things to fix and Slackware could be listed as a GNUstep target system! My other observation I have is, right at the start of the script is says it’s adding my user to sudoers (it’s already a sudoer) but also prompts for the root password, is that necessary? Cheers Steven
