Directory /etc/WindowMaker is for global defaults configuration, it is not
a "data" folder which is $PREFIX/share/WindowMaker.
The name change make it more consistent with other names.
The man page says environment variables are used, and if they don't exist
it falls back to defaults, yet this was not true in WINGS.
This changes implements the checks for the default paths used when the env
variables are not defined; these default paths have been fixed (+lib) to
match the GNUstep layout ('fhs'), expect for the very last path which keeps
the legacy layout.
For the user Apps folder, rely on wusergnusteppath() (~/GNUstep) to build
the path.
The previous code was only partially functional as the hard-coded paths
did not exist in any of GNUstep standard file system layout and the
GNUSTEP_*_ROOT environment variables were not provided by GNUstep for a
while. This means it would never work no matter how environment variables
were set when using layouts: 'debian', 'fhs', 'next', 'Apple', 'mac',
'fhs-system', or 'standalone'.
As reported in Debian bug #922284 [1]:
As evident from the prefix, GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is a GNUstep variable and
Window Maker should not set it. Furthemore, it has been deprecated for
12 years already. As of gnustep-make/2.7.0-4 the GNUstep build system
is configured in strict v2 mode which makes it impossible to compile
GNUstep software. In a terminal started from a Window Maker session:
yavor@aneto:/tmp/gorm.app-1.2.24$ 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is obsolete.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config-noarch.make:121: *** GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT is obsolete.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>
Because the man page references some stuff that are dependant on the
configure options, it is a good idea to update the man page accordingly, so
the user will not be puzzled later.
There is now a script which takes care of replacing '@var@' in the same way
autoconf does, but also which can handle conditional '@def@' removal (for
the case of feature dependant command line options).
The man page for Window Maker is now processed this way so user will always
see accurate information.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
