Re: GNUstep fails to build on SUSE 9.2

[Nicola Pero]

> > Hi
> > 
> > I am trying to build GNUstep on SUSE 9.2 (virgin install with all devl 
> > packages installed) but it seems to me that GNUstep doesn't like SUSE, at 
> > least not 9.2.
> > 
> > If I try to use the gnustep-startup package, it complains about missing 
> > JPEG, 
> > TIFF and PNG libraries, which is nonsense because those libraries are 
> > installed and they do show up both in Yast utility or with rpm -i. I guess 
> > the GNUstep check is broken.
> 
> Are you *sure* it's nonsense?
> 
> The reason I ask is that it's quite a common error to assume that 
> development packages of libraries are installed, when in fact only the 
> runtime libraries are installed.  To build software (such as gnustep) you 
> need the development packages which include headers etc.

Yes :-)

... maybe we could improve on the scripts though ... we should probably
have the configure script output a message clearly mentioning having
installed the development headers as well the library binaries ... that
way maybe new users would be less confused ?

Thanks