Re: gnustep-gui build link dependency orders wrong

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 3 Jul 2013, at 21:59, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> For a couple of weeks now I'm doing nightly builds of two of my pet projects 
> via Jenkins on FreeBSD 9.1

That's good to know ... it's always nice to find out that someone is using 
GNUstep ...

> Instead of linking against gnustep-base.so installed in 
> /usr/local/jenkins/workspace/GNUstep_trunk/GNUSTEP_ROOT/Local/Library/Libraries,
>  it links against the (defunct) version installed in /usr/local/lib. The 
> obvious culprit is the link order, which should be (according to my 
> understanding):
> 
> -L../Source/./obj -L../Model/./obj  -L/root/GNUstep/Library/Libraries 
> -L/usr/local/jenkins/workspace/GNUstep_trunk/GNUSTEP_ROOT/Local/Library/Libraries
>  
> -L/usr/local/jenkins/workspace/GNUstep_trunk/GNUSTEP_ROOT/System/Library/Libraries
>   -L/usr/local/lib

Thanks ... good diagnosis.
This turns out to be a problem with the gnustep-gui configuration seting the 
paths to libraries and headers needed for external dependencies as having 
higher precendence than all other paths (setting them in ADDITIONAL... 
variables) rather than lower precedence that all other paths (setting them in 
CONFIG_SYSTEM... variables).

I fixed the configure.ac script and config.make.in to change this behavior ... 
please give it a try.