BK wrote:
> I am trying to build GNUstep on SUSE 9.2 (virgin install with all devl > packages installed) but it seems to me that GNUstep doesn't like SUSE, > at least not 9.2. > > If I try to use the gnustep-startup package, it complains about missing > JPEG, TIFF and PNG libraries, which is nonsense because those libraries > are installed and they do show up both in Yast utility or with rpm -i. I > guess the GNUstep check is broken. Strange, I'll in the process of setting up an SuSE 9.2 ftp installation right now as I'm currently running installation tests for our software. I don't suppose you still have the original config.log's of -make and -base around for the initial configure run. > Anyway, I moved on trying to build the four basic packages (make, base, > gui and backend) one by one and now the check for JPEG, TIFF and PNG > libraries says "yes" when I run configure, but unfortunately it > complains about ffcall/libffi not being present. > > I cannot download ffcall because the ftp site is down and there seems to > be no mirror, so I tried to run configure with the parameter > --with-ffi-include but still it complains about a missing ffi library. > This strikes me as odd because as far as I know, libffi is part of gcc, > which I have installed (everything other than g77 and gnat). You can get it from gnustep's site: ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz > Has anybody built GNUstep on SUSE 9.2 before? Can anybody assist please? I've been installing on 9.1 a lot lately but without gui/back. I'll see what happens with the 9.2 build right now in which I'll try the Startup script. Good luck! Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Help-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnustep
