Re: Install location for libobjc2

[Tom Davie]

On 2 Nov 2012, at 17:41, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi again Richard,
>> 
>> Well, oddly, this is all working fine if I install version 1.5.1 of 
>> libojbc2, so there must be something that has changed in the make system 
>> since then.
> 
> You said:
>> make messages=yes install though does not report any additional information. 
>>  In addition, adding echo lines to the GNUmakefile causes them to not be 
>> printed
> 
> That means that your make program is not even trying to use the GNUmakefile 
> ... I don't see how installing anb older version of libobjc2 could effect 
> whether your make program reads makefiles or not.

Interestingly, make messages=yes install, when carried out in the version 1.5.1 
source directory *does* print additional messages.

The trunk GNUmakefile includes a bunch of new stuff at the top, which notably 
includes a call out to Makefile if it doesn't think you have a proper GNUstep 
setup.  I suspect that this code is doing something awry!

Thanks

Tom Davie