Re: ANN: New Windows Installer now with GUI!

[Alex Perez]

Pablo Di Noto wrote:

> Alex Perez escribió:
>
> > Marko Riedel wrote:
> >
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > I tried the installer. Everything went fine. Next I tried to compile
> > > my mastermind program. I was logged on as "riedel." I had to edit the
> > > makefile and replace
> > >
> > > $(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)/Makefiles
> > >
> > > by
> > >
> > > $(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)/Library/Makefiles
> >
> >
> >
> > Actually, you really need to be using $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES. This is 
> > much safer.
>
>
> In my case, using the installer with precompiled binaries on WinXP 
> Prof + SP1, I get the same error.
>
> But as I can see, the environment variable $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES 
> correctly points to $(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)/Library/Makefiles, but 
> GNUmakefile insists in looking at $(GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT)/Makefiles. 
> May be it is (incorrectly) hardcoded?

Yes, this is my point. It's a shame marko never replied... :(

> > $ export PS1="\u@\h \w # "
> > Pablo@AVENTIUM ~ # cd /c/GNUstep/Test/
> > Pablo@AVENTIUM /c/GNUstep/Test # cd GConnectFour/
> > /c/GNUstep/Test/GConnectFour
> > Pablo@AVENTIUM /c/GNUstep/Test/GConnectFour # make
> > GNUmakefile:6: /c/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/common.make: No such file 
> > or directory
> > GNUmakefile:26: /c/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/application.make: No such 
> > file or directory
> > make: *** No rule to make target 
> > `/c/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/application.make'.  Stop.
> > Pablo@AVENTIUM /c/GNUstep/Test/GConnectFour # ls -l 
> > /c/GNUstep/System/Makefiles
> > ls: /c/GNUstep/System/Makefiles: No such file or directory
> > Pablo@AVENTIUM /c/GNUstep/Test/GConnectFour # echo $GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES 
> > /c/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles
>
>
> In my case, copying the Makefiles directory where GNUmakefile expects 
> it worked (not very nice, I know).

Don't do that. The reason he's using $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Makefiles is 
(A) They used to live there, a while back, and (B) There's a symbolic 
link there under *NIX. If he were using the envvar he should have always 
been using, then we would not be having this conversation.

> Regards,
> ///Pablo