Re: Installing gnustep from version control sources

[Mick Bert]

2018-04-13 16:49 GMT+02:00 Bertrand Dekoninck <bertrand.dekoninck@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 13 April 2018 at 15:19, Mick Bert <micbert75@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>> I would like to install gnustep on an old Apple iBook with Lubuntu
>>> 14.04 PowerPC
>>
> The matter on ppc is that libobjc2 cannot be used with clang for now (see
> https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2/issues/65)
> I didn't try to build it with gcc.
The issue I have is different: it looks the assembler does not
recognise the assembly generated files

>
> So you should build gnustep with gcc, without libobjc2. It should run on any
> ppc distro (I use it on a daily basis on debian wheezy which is a older).
> Building should be straigthforward.
>
> You'll have to clone git repos :
> git clone git://github.com/gnustep/libs-make
> git clone git://github.com/gnustep/libs-base
> git clone git://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui
> git clone git://github.com/gnustep/libs-back
>
Done it, thanks.
But it would be great to have an up-to-date guide reachable from the
web-site, don't you agree?

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Mick