Another window manager failed to build: gnustep

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 28, 2009, at 17:35, Jamie Griffin wrote:

> decided to give up on fvwm2 for now and so tried to install  
> gnustep. Except, after 3 hours of it installing it failed with the  
> following error (below). Would you know if there's anything i can  
> do to get it to build successfully?
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> cheers, Jamie
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> Configuring gnustep-base
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> configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in /opt/ 
> local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles .//opt/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles
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> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
> shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnust 
> ep_gnustep-base/work/gnustep-base-1.18.0" && ./configure --prefix=/ 
> opt/local CC=gcc-mp-4.2 GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/opt/local/share/GNUstep/ 
> Makefiles --enable-libffi --with-ffi-include=/opt/local/include/ 
> gcc42 --with-ffi-library=/opt/local/lib/gcc42 " returned error 1
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> Command output: configure: error: cannot find install-sh or  
> install.sh in /opt/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles .//opt/local/share/ 
> GNUstep/Makefiles
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I wanted to confirm that I get this error too, on Mac OS X 10.5.6  
Intel with Xcode 3.1.2 and MacPorts 1.7.0.

I see this error reported previously in this ticket:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13466

which is closed as a duplicate of this ticket:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/13693

which was allegedly fixed 15 months ago. Clearly not, and/or the  
problem has resurfaced.

Unfortunately gnustep-base has no maintainer so someone with an  
interest in this problem will need to step up and figure out how to  
solve it.