Re: [bug-gsrc] Testing GNUstep

[Germán Arias]

Currently the default backend is cairo. The others backends are not
maintained. So, these options are unnecessary. Especially
"--with-name=" who changes the name of the backend. I have read
the documentation. And according with this, if you change the
backend's name, you should setup the variable GSBackend with
the new name. Setting this variable all works perfectly. But don't worry,
these options are not necessary. The user only needs these to test
modified backends.

Germán.

On 2013-06-05 14:36:44 -0600 Brandon Invergo <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On the one hand, I'm disappointed to hear that it's not working but on
> the other hand I'm glad that we at least got my stupid mistakes and
> little problems out of the way!
> 
> So, this is what I was afraid of.  I'm not very familiar with the
> GNUstep setup and, reading the docs, I found that there were a couple
> different ways of doing it (particularly with regards to the directory
> layout) and overall I found the whole process a bit unfamiliar compared
> to the typical GNU process.  Nevertheless, only one package
> (gnustep-base) required any configuration change simply to work with
> with GSRC's install mechanism:
> 
>     --with-default-config=$(prefix)/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
> 
> Note, however, that in each package's directory, there's another file
> called config.mk where the user can specify the configuration options
> that they want.  By default, gnustep-back has the following:
> 
>     --enable-server=x11 --enable-graphics=cairo --with-name=cairo
> 
> My guess is that the "--with-name" option is what's causing the
> difference in the bundle's names.  But perhaps it's the cairo backend in
> general that's causing the problem.  Perhaps the default should be
> xlib.  I don't recall any particular reason that I chose cairo.
> 
> Thanks as always,
> Brandon
>