Those of you that are regulars on the list probably recognize me by now.
I've been working on getting Etoile compiled for a while now. I've talked
to Greg at GNUstep about the same issues on their side, the high barrier to
entry that is, and he agreed that it was an issue and suggested that I
mention something here.
I don't want to just complain, and I certainly don't want to give the
impression that I don't think you guys are doing some really cool things, as
that wouldn't be very productive. That's why I've been taking detailed
notes the whole way through so I can attempt to write (or add to the
existing) documentation with version numbers, compile flags, etc, to make
the process easier for others. Eventually I'd like to get past that and
into helping out on the Frameworks/Apps.
I've been following the instructions on the web site, and learning lots of
required minor tweaks along the way, but still need some help on two main
issues.
*First of all*, and this could be that I have some weird version of sudo,
the -E flag on sudo doesn't seem to work for me. I get complaints about
GNUstep tools not being in my path. That's not a big deal, I just open a
new terminal, sudo -i, source the GNUstep scripts, and leave it up for all
of my 'make install's.
man sudo shows:
-E The -E (preserve environment) option will override the env_reset
option in sudoers(5)).
It is only available when either the matching command has
the SETENV tag or the setenv
option is set in sudoers(5).
Perhaps I don't hav the setenv option set in sudoers, I'll check later.
*Secondly*, I've installed GNUstep and libobjc2 exactly as instructed
(several times). I've compiled and installed GNUstep make, compiled and
installed libobjc2, recompiled and installed GNUstep make so that it builds
with libobjc2, then compiled and installed the rest of the GNUstep
components. I've even tried recompiling and installing llvm/clang after
having libobjc2 installed. Still, once I get to running make in Etoile, I
get through most projects, then I get this:
Making all for subproject bindings...
Compiling file poppler_objc.m ...
g++: poppler_objc.m: Objective-C compiler not installed on this system
make[5]: *** [obj/bindings.obj/poppler_objc.m.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [internal-subproject-all_] Error 2
make[3]: *** [bindings.all.subproject.variables] Error 2
make[2]: *** [PopplerKit.all.framework.variables] Error 2
make[1]: *** [internal-all] Error 2
make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
I'm not sure why clang thinks there isn't an Objective C compiler installed.
Is that even clang? I noticed the line starts with g++. Do I have to set
an environment variable, in addition to CC, to tell the system to use clang
instead of g++ as well?
I was briefly able to get past this, but somewhere in my recompiling the
workaround escaped me. So much for my detailed notes :)
Thanks again for all of your help,
Ryan
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