Re: GNUstep-base on Darwin

[Gregory Casamento]

--- LHelldorf@kabel.de wrote:
> Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com>
> Sent by: fedor@kabel.de
> 12.04.2001 23:12
> 
>  
>         To:     LHelldorf@kabel.de
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Re: GNUstep-base on Darwin
> 
> >Well I added a bunch of stuff to gnustep-base so it will work better on
> >Darwin. I doubt it will compile correctly - there's no way for me to
> >test it.
> 
> Sorry for the long silence, but I had to tackle a couple of problems. 
> First I tried to switch to Darwin 1.3.1 which is out now for some days.
> But that darn thing wouldn't boot, I fear my machine is to old. So I 
> started over with Darwin 1.2.1 again.
> 
> >So get the latest update from CVS and try again, and send me the error
> >output.
> 
> Then I tried to get the source via cvs. Worked fine in Mac OS with MacCVS 
> Pro 2.7d3 (Carbon) but some filenames where to long for Mac OS so this 
> didn't work. After this I tried to get it via cvs from Darwin but this 
> time something with the network went wrong (I am on a private subnet, I 
> get my IP which is 172.16.16.2 from a DHCP Server and I could not get out 
> with cvs neither to subversions.gnu.org nor 198.186.203.17 (which is its 
> IP)). To cut the long story short: I decided to go with your daily 
> snapshots from ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/daily-snapshots.
> The first snapshot I downloaded is core.20010420.tar.bz2.
> 
> Since I had to start from zero I am back to building gnustep-make.
> ./configure went fine, also make. But make install resulted in the 
> following:
> 
> ./mkinstalldirs  /opt/GNUstep/System /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/powerpc \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/powerpc/darwin1.0 \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/Additional \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Tools \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/share \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Apps \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Libraries/powerpc/darwin1.0 \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Libraries/powerpc/darwin1.0/nx-gnu-gnu-xgps \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Headers/powerpc/darwin1.0 \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Tools/powerpc/darwin1.0 \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Tools/powerpc/darwin1.0/nx-gnu-gnu-xgps \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Library \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Colors \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Library/PostScript \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Services \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Documentation/Developer \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Documentation/User \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Documentation/info \
>         /opt/GNUstep/System/Documentation/man \
>         /opt/GNUstep/Local \
>         /opt/GNUstep/Local/Users \
>         /opt/GNUstep/Local/Users/Administrator \
>         /opt/GNUstep/Network 
> make: execvp: ./mkinstalldirs: Permission denied
> make: *** [install] Error 127
> 
> I can not explain this to myself since I was logged in as root the whole 
> time. How can then a Permission denied occur?

The mkinstalldirs has a permissions problem.  The execute permission is not
set, so execvp cannot execute the script.  Simply chmod 755 mkinstalldirs in 
order to correct the problem.  This should be corrected in CVS.

As for the other things, I'm not sure.

Later, GJC


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Gregory John Casamento

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