Environment setup issues

[nfroggy]

Hi,
When I tried using the scripts to install GNUstep on a Debian machine (I ran install-dependencies-linux and then update-gnustep), the compilation went successfully but when update-gnustep tried to run make-services, it failed because the environment wasn't set up (so /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools) wasn't in the PATH, etc). I think that if you're targeting users who are new to GNUstep, these scripts should either add the . /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh line to the user's ~/.profile file or inform the user that they have to do this.

[nfroggy]

Added complications- I found that some display managers ignore ~/.profile in favor of ~/.xsessionrc, and I'm not sure how to set up the environment in root's account such that sudo make install works.

[pkgdemon]

I've found that /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh is symlinked to /etc/profiled.d/GNUstep.sh. It works for me if I log out, log back in before running other commands.

[nfroggy]

Thanks, I didn't notice that the script tries to set up the environment. Unfortunately some display managers also ignore /etc/profile.d/ and /etc/profiles (which is lame because I agree that /etc/profile.d/ is the cleanest place for a script to put the environment setup). I think that ~/.xsessionrc should be supported by all display managers, but I just found out that it's a Debian specific thing isn't supported by other distros. What a complicated state of affairs...

BTW, I found that sudo -E make install is a workaround for root not having his environment set up, but I'm sure you all already knew that :)