As reported in Debian bug #922284 [1]:
As evident from the prefix, GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is a GNUstep variable and
Window Maker should not set it. Furthemore, it has been deprecated for
12 years already. As of gnustep-make/2.7.0-4 the GNUstep build system
is configured in strict v2 mode which makes it impossible to compile
GNUstep software. In a terminal started from a Window Maker session:
yavor@aneto:/tmp/gorm.app-1.2.24$ make
This is gnustep-make 2.7.0. Type 'make print-gnustep-make-help' for help.
Running in gnustep-make version 2 strict mode.
rm -f InterfaceBuilder; \
ln -s GormLib InterfaceBuilder
/usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/config-noarch.make:121: *** GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT
is obsolete. Stop.
It is also impossible to build gnustep-make from pristine upstream
source:
yavor@aneto:/tmp$ wget -q
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core/gnustep-make-2.7.0.tar.gz
yavor@aneto:/tmp$ tar xzf gnustep-make-2.7.0.tar.gz
yavor@aneto:/tmp$ cd gnustep-make-2.7.0/
yavor@aneto:/tmp/gnustep-make-2.7.0$ ./configure
...
yavor@aneto:/tmp/gnustep-make-2.7.0$ make
config-noarch.make:121: *** GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is obsolete. Stop.
Note that the majority of GNUstep users use Window Maker as their window
manager and many of them build GNUstep software from source, mostly
because of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime which depends on Clang
(Debian packages use GCC and the GCC/GNU runtime).
Our solution is to replace the GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT environment variable with our
own environment variable, WMAKER_USER_ROOT. This is documented in NEWS.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/922284
As pointed by Douglas Torrance, nowadays no application is using anymore
the 1x section for the man pages, so this patch is changing the section for
all our concerned man pages to 1 (general commands).
Took opportunity to add some missing references in "see also" sections.
Reported-by: Doug Torrance <dtorrance@monmouthcollege.edu>
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
