Re: GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE value ('/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf') is not an absolute path

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Mar 2006, at 15:39, Tom Koelman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am fixing the Windows Installer with regard to the GNUstep.conf
> file. I am building base 1.11.2 and gui 0.10.2.

base 1.11.2 was unfortunately not tested on mingw, and released broken.
I would therefore rather take a recent snapshot from svn and use that.
I believe the current state is good ... certainly I used it a few  
days ago.

> ./configure --disable-xml --with-config-file=$GNUSTEP_INSTALL_DIR/ 
> GNUstep.conf

Disabling xml is no longer necessary if you use the modified libxml  
as described in the README.MinGW in the current make package.

> 2006-03-06 14:57:21.708 defaults.exe[3680] GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE  
> value ('/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf') is not an absolute path.   
> Please rebuild GNUstep-base specifying a valid path to the config  
> file.
>
> What do I do wrong? As far as I can tell I already build GNUstep-base
> specifying a valid path to the config file.

base now uses native windows paths ... current make/base configure  
scripts set up two separate config files, one for the unix-style make  
environment, and one for  the windows-style runtime environment.