Re: GNU Guix 0.2 released

[German Arias]

2013/5/16, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>:
>
> IIRC GNUstep packages don’t use the GNU build system (./configure &&
> make), but rather gnustep-make, right?

The installation of gnustep packages (make, base, gui and back) is in the normal
way: ./configure, make & make install. The difference is that the last three
packages use gnustep-make instead of GNU make. But depending of the
configuration of gnustep's enviroment, the end user doesn't notice any
difference.
Because the name of gnustep-make tool is also "make". I don't know how the
system can deal two tools named "make". But I think the trick is in
the fact that
gnustep's packages use GNUmakefiles instead of makefiles.

The only difference is that if the system don't know about the gnustep
tools. The
user will need run the gnustep script, something like ".
/usr/.../GNUstep.sh", to set
up the variables of gnustep environment.

The rest of packages is other history. Many of them only use: make &
make install.
Here "make" is "gnustep-make", And with the apps made with gnustep, as far as I
remember, only GWorkspace uses ./configure.

>
> If that is the case, a good way to help with GNUstep packaging would be
> to implement a ‘gnustep-build-system’ embodying GNUstep’s build system
> idioms.  That is a bit more involved, but I (or others here) can help.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

Germán.