gnustep-make-2.8.0/Documentation/releasenotes.texi

@chapter GNUstep Make Release Notes

The release notes include descriptions of API changes, behavior
changes and other information that might help developers and users
migrate to using a newer version of the make system.

@section Version 2.8.0

We now include better library combo and ABI detection: gnustep-make will now
attempt to detect the optimal library combo and ABI supported by the
installed compiler and Objective-C runtime library. Explicit selection of the
runtime ABI is now possible using the @code{--with-runtime-abi} configure
option.

There's now full support for the gnustep-2.0 Objective-C ABI.

This release includes support for creating a Git tag and creating a tarball
from a git tag using the @code{git-tag} and @code{git-dist} targets.

This release includes support for creating a Mercurial tag and creating a
tarball from a hg tag using the @code{hg-tag} and @code{hg-dist} targets.

We have dropped legacy Rhapsody and FreeBSD-out support.

@section Version 2.7.0

When building non-flattened, the subdirectory name for libraries/binaries
is changed for Debian compatibility (and simplicity) to use a directory
whose name is of the form architecture/library-combo rather than nested
directories of the form cpu/os-abi/library-combo.  The architecture name
format is a sanitised triplet cpu-os-abi (where previously we had cpu/os-abi).

When building non-flattened, header files are now installed in an architecture
and library-combo dependent subdirectory in the same way that binary libraries
are installed.  This removes an inconsistency and makes sense with Debian
multiarch support which puts headers in an architecture specific subdirectory.

The long since deprecated GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR is removed.

Various bugfixes and minor improvements.

@section Version 2.6.8

Configure option '--with-library-combo=ng-gnu-gnu' to use the 'Next Generation' setup of the latest ObjectiveC-2 runtime and compiler features rather than traditional runtime.  Requires the new runtime and a recent clang compiler.

With the 'ng' runtime in use, you can define GS_WITH_ARC=1 at the start of a makefile, or in your environment, or in the command line arguments to have objC code built using ARC.

Command line option 'documentation=no' to suppress builds of documentation.

Integration of testsuite for regression/unit testing of libraries using the 'check' target.  In your makefile define libraryname_TEST_DIR = TestsSubdirectory

Various minor bugfixes, documentation spelling corrections etc.

The '--enable-strict-v2-mode' option is now, after eight years, turned on by default (in anticipation of finally removing backward compatibility with version one).  WARNING; Packagers please ensure that you update any old gnustep-make version one makefiles.

Garbage collection support to be removed at the next release.

@section Version 2.6.7

Improved package building support

Improved environment variable support

Improved Java support

Various minor bugfixes, documentation spelling corrections etc.

@section Version 2.6.6

Debian packagge generation support added.

Bug fixes

@section Version 2.6.5

Bugfix for non-fragile ABI test

Bugfix order if include diorectories for system includes

Bugfix equality test for prorocol testing

Added minimal test support for .c and .cc files.

@section Version 2.6.4

Test framework enhancement (extended equality tests)

Android build target

@section Version 2.6.3

Bug fixes

@section Version 2.6.2
@table @samp
@item Added standalone filesystem layout for putting everything in
one directory for easy deployment of relocatable

@item Other bug fixes
@end table

@section Version 2.6.1

Bug fixes

@section Version 2.6.0
@table @samp

@item The default filesystem layout is now the 'fhs' layout
Before version 2.6.0, the default filesystem layout was the 'gnustep'
layout.  Starting with 2.6.0, the default filesystem layout has
changed and is now the 'fhs' layout.  To get the old default layout,
configure gnustep-make using ./configure --with-layout=gnustep.  Note
that this change does not affect gnustep-make when used with the
apple-apple-apple library combo, in which case the default filesystem
layout remains the 'apple' one.

The change in the default filesystem layout means that the location of
the GNUstep.sh file in a default installation has changed from
/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh to
/usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh.  If you use the default
layout and execute the GNUstep.sh script on startup, you need to
change the command from

@smallexample
. /usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
@end smallexample

to

@smallexample
. /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
@end smallexample

@item The default location of the configuration file changed
Before version 2.6.0, the configuration file was always by default
/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf no matter what filesystem layout and prefix
were used.  Starting with version 2.6.0, that is the default location
of the configuration file only when installing system-wide, that is
with a prefix set to /, /usr or /usr/GNUstep.  In all other cases, the
configuration file is by default located in
$prefix/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf.

In particular, this means that if ./configure is invoked with no
options specified, the default location of the configuration file is
now /usr/local/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf (and no longer
/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf).

Please note that the --with-config-file=xxx option allow you to
specify whatever location for the configuration file that you want;
the default is only used if no such option is specified and
gnustep-make has to pick a reasonable default location for the
configuration file.

Finally, also note that the default location of the configuration file
on Darwin has not changed and is still /Library/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf
regardless of the prefix selected.

@item Removed the --with-system-root, --with-local-root and --with-network-root options
These configure options were obsolete and are ignored by all releases
in the past 4 years and have now finally been removed.

@item Removed obsolete variables
Some very old variables that were deprecated 4 years ago have now been
removed.  This includes xxx_RESOURCE_FILES_INSTALL_DIR in
resource-set.make (you should use xxx_INSTALL_DIR instead) and
GNUSTEP_GSWAPPS in gswapp.make (you should use GNUSTEP_WEB_APPS
instead).

@item New Test Framework
GNUstep-make now includes a test framework that can be used to easily
write testcases for Objective-C software.  The new releases of
GNUstep-base and GNUstep-gui include regression test suites that use
this test framework.  Please check the README in the TestFramework
directory for more information on how it works or how to use it.

@item objc.make is deprecated
The file objc.make, which is used to compile Objective-C command-line
tools without a Foundation library such as GNUstep base, is now
deprecated.  Please use tool.make instead.

@item --enable-absolute-install-paths is now the default on Darwin
This makes it easier to use GNUstep with the gnu-gnu-gnu library combo
on Apple Mac OS X.

@end table

@section Version 2.4.0
@table @samp

@item You can enable the use of the non-fragile ivar ABI
The --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi flag can be used to enable the
non-fragile ivar ABI for compilers (such as clang) that support it.

@item -Wall is now used by default unless 'make warn=no' is specified
Before version 2.4.0, 'make debug=yes' would not only build object
files particularly suited for debugging, but would also add the -Wall
flag on the compiler command line when compiling C/ObjC/C++/ObjC++.
Starting with 2.4.0, the -Wall flag is controlled by a separate warn
flag, so you can turn it on and off indipendentely by doing 'make
warn=yes' or 'make warn=no'.  Since warn=yes is the default, the
default behaviour also changed; starting with 2.4.0, gnustep-make will
use -Wall by default.  You can turn it off by using 'make warn=no'.

A similar change occurred for Java compilations, where the flag
-deprecation, which used to be enabled by debug=yes, is now enabled by
warn=yes.  As a consequence, Java code is now compiled by default with
the -deprecation flag.  You can turn it off by compiling with 'make
warn=no'.

@item PACKAGE_NEEDS_CONFIGURE and JAVADOC_BUILD_ALWAYS now support 'yes' and 'no'
gnustep-make boolean variables traditionally use the values 'yes' and
'no', with the unfortunate exception of PACKAGE_NEEDS_CONFIGURE and
JAVADOC_BUILD_ALWAYS which used to only recognize the values 'YES' and
'NO'.  For consistency with everything else, starting with
gnustep-make 2.4.0 these two variables recognize the values 'yes' and
'no' too.

@item Versions of GNU make older then 3.79.1 (June 2000) are no longer supported
The .NOTPARALLEL pseudo-target is only available in GNU make 3.79 and
is essential for parallel builds to work.  Starting with version
2.4.0, gnustep-make recommends using GNU make 3.79.1 or greater; a
warning will be issued during configure if an older GNU make is
detected.  Older versions of GNU make are likely to work (except for
parallel building) but are no longer supported.  As 3.79.1 was
released about 10 years ago, this should not be a particular problem.

@item new internalmessages=yes option
Starting with version 2.4.0, gnustep-make recognized the new
internalmessages=yes option (separate from messages=yes) which prints
all the recursive make invocations that are used.  This is mostly
useful to understand how gnustep-make internally works and is not
meant for end-users.

@item javadoc is run in quiet mode
Starting with version 2.4.0, javadoc is by default executed with the
-quiet option (unless messages=yes is specified), and a ``Generating
javadoc documentation...'' is printed instead.

@item new API to build subdirectories
Before version 2.4.0, aggregate.make was used to step into
subdirectories and build them.  It did not support parallel building.
Starting with version 2.4.0, two new makefile fragments have been
introduced: serial-subdirectories.make and
parallel-subdirectories.make.  These can be used to build
subdirectories, and encourage (indeed, force) the developer to
explicitly decide if the subdirectories are to be built serially, or
in parallel.

Using parallel-subdirectories.make often produces massively faster
builds (or installs or cleans) during a parallel build on a multicore
machine.  But if you use parallel-subdirectories.make, you need to
make sure the different subdirectories are completely independent of
each other.  The operations that are executed in parallel are 'all',
'clean', 'distclean', 'check' and 'strings'.  'install' and
'uninstall' are still executed in serial order to prevent any
concurrency problems when creating (or removing) common installation
directories.

aggregate.make is still available if you want or need to be
backwards-compatible with older versions of gnustep-make.  It is
normally a wrapper around serial-subdirectories.make, but if you
specify 'GNUSTEP_USE_PARALLEL_AGGREGATE = yes' in your GNUmakefile, it
becomes a wrapper around parallel-subdirectories.make.  aggregate.make
will be deprecated in 2012 and removed in 2015, but for the next
couple of years it might be a good solution while you wait for your
users to upgrade their gnustep-make installations.


@item each instance stores object files in its own subdirectory
Before version 2.4.0, there was a single object directory where all
object files where stored.  In the most common case, this directory
was simply ./obj, so if you compiled file source.m, you'd end up with
./obj/source.m.o.  Starting with version 2.4.0, different instances
store their object files in different subdirectories; for example, if
the file was compiled as part of tool ToolA, it would end up in
./obj/ToolA.obj/source.m.o, while if compiled as part of ToolB, it
would end up in ./obj/ToolB.obj/source.m.o.  This allows ToolA and
ToolB to be built in parallel with no race conditions, even if they
share some source files.  There are a number of side effects of this
change.  First of all, in the unlikely event that your GNUmakefile
depends on the location of the object files (bad idea by the way),
you'll have to update it.  Second, if you are reusing a single source
file in multiple instances in the same project, this will now be
compiled multiple times instead of one (on the plus side, you can
fully parallelize the build by just using 'make -j N', without having
to change anything in your GNUmakefile.  On a machine with multiple
cpus/cores this can massively speed up the build).  Finally, the rules
to compile C/ObjC/C++/ObjC++/Windres files are no longer available in
the Master invocation - they are only available when compiling a
specific instance.  It's hard to imagine a situation where this change
of private internals would affect any user; but people with their own
private gnustep-make forks or advanced extensions might be affected.

@item the order in which instances are built is no longer guaranteed
If you build more than one tool in the same GNUmakefile by listing
them all in TOOL_NAME as in ``TOOL_NAME = ToolA ToolB', you need to be
aware that the way the instances are built changed in version 2.4.0.

This change affects applications, bundles, ctools, clibraries,
libraries, services, palettes, test-applications, test-libraries,
test-tools, tools.  It does not affect Java, resource sets or
documentation. [FIXME: frameworks ?]

Before version 2.4.0, instances were always built one after the other
one, exactly in the order specified.  So, in the example ToolA would
be built before ToolB.  Starting with 2.4.0, the instances might be
built completely in parallel if parallel building is enabled.  So, the
order in which they are built is no longer defined and your
GNUmakefile should not depend on the order in which instances are
specified in the GNUmakefile.  Most GNUmakefiles should be unaffected
because they rarely rely on the order in which instances are built.
If your GNUmakefile does depend on the order, you have a few options.
The preferred option is to identify the code or steps that need to be
executed before some of the instances are built and put them into a
before-all:: rule, which is guaranteed to be executed before anything
else.  In this way your serialized code is executed first, and the
build can continue in a completely parallel fashion afterwards.

Another option is to move your instances into separate subdirectories,
and use serial-subdirectories.make to build them.
serial-subdirectories.make will respect the order and always build
them in the order you require.

If you want to disable parallel building altogether, you can add
GNUSTEP_MAKE_PARALLEL_BUILDING=no just after including common.make to
prevent a specific GNUmakefile from doing a parallel build.

Please note that this does not affect the relationship between
instances of different types; if you include library.make before
tool.make, for example, the library (or libraries) will still be built
before the tool (or tools).  It is the order in which the libraries
(or tools) are built that is no longer guaranteed.

@item support for having source files in subdirectories
Starting with version 2.4.0, it is possible to put source files in
subdirectories by specifiying them as in xxx_OBJC_FILES =
Source/Beauty.m.  This syntax does not work on versions before 2.4.0
so you should not use it if you want to support older versions of
gnustep-make; previously you had to create a subproject and add a
GNUmakefile in the subdirectory using subproject.make.  You can now
spread your source files in multiple subdirectories without using
subprojects.

@item support for having header files in subdirectories
Starting with version 2.4.0, it is possible to put header files in
subdirectories by specifiying them as in xxx_HEADER_FILES =
Beauty/Beauty.h.  This syntax does not work on versions before 2.4.0
so you should not use it if you want to support older versions of
gnustep-make.  When headers are put in subdirectories specified in
this way, corresponding subdirectories are created when the header
files are installed.  For example Beauty/Beauty.h would be
automatically installed into
GNUSTEP_HEADERS/HEADER_FILES_INSTALL_DIR/Beauty/Beauty.h.  To get the
same result in versions before 2.4.0 you would have had to manually
create the header installation subdirectories.

@item support for HEADER_FILES_DIR in framework subproject
Before version 2.4.0, specifying xxx_HEADER_FILES_DIR in a framework
subproject would have no effect.  Starting with version 2.4.0, the
variable is now recognized and can be used to have the files in a
subdirectory.  You should avoid using the variable in framework
subprojects if you want to support older versions of gnustep-make.

@item info files renamed adding a gnustep- prefix
To prevent conflicts with other documentation, all the gnustep-make
info files have been renamed adding a gnustep- prefix.  For example,
to access the GNUstep faq using info, you now need to type 'info
gnustep-faq' instead of 'info faq'.  Please note that this info
documentation is in the core/make/Documentation subdirectory and at
the moment is not automatically installed unless you explicitly go in
that subdirectory and install it.

@item better cleaning for texinfo documentation
When you build html documentation from texinfo files, the local
directory containing the html files was not being removed when doing a
'make clean'.  Starting with version 2.4.0, 'make clean' removes the
directory too.

@item debug=no made the default
gnustep-make now builds using debug=no by default.  As a consequence,
on most platforms C/Objective-C/C++ code is now built by default using
-g -O2 instead of just -g.  If you do not want the -O2 flag, you can
simply build using 'make debug=yes'.  You can also use the new
./configure --enable-debug-by-default option to make 'debug=yes' the
default flag that is always used when compiling if nothing else is
specified.  If you do not want the debugging symbols, remember that
you can use the 'make strip=yes' option to have them stripped out from
all object files when they are installed.

@item batch-compilation of Java files
gnustep-make used to compile Java files one by one.  In most Java
compilers this is very suboptimal.  Starting from release 2.4.0,
gnustep-make will compile all Java files in a Java project with a
single Java compiler invocation.  This can significantly speed up
compilation of large projects.  To disable it and get the behaviour of
gnustep-make 2.2.0, please set the variable BATCH_COMPILE_JAVA_FILES
to 'no' (or the variable xxx_BATCH_COMPILE_JAVA_FILES to 'no' to
disable it for a single instance).  Please note that if you are using
the xxx_FILE_FLAGS or xxx_FILE_FILTER_OUT_FLAGS functionality for Java
files, which allows you to customize the compilation flags for each
Java file, then batch compilation is automatically disabled and all
files are compiled separately.

@item library resources always installed in directory without 'lib'
This change only applies to libraries where LIBRARY_NAME starts with
'lib' and that install resources.  Due to a bug, versions of
gnustep-make before 2.4.0 would in this case install the resources
into the wrong directory, without removing 'lib' from the library
name.  For example, if LIBRARY_NAME is libgnustep-base, the resources
would have been installed into
GNUSTEP_LIBRARY/Libraries/libgnustep-base/Versions/1.14/Resources/
instead of the correct
GNUSTEP_LIBRARY/Libraries/gnustep-base/Versions/1.14/Resources/.  In
gnustep-make 2.4.0, this bug has been fixed and the library name,
without 'lib', will always be used in the resource installation
directory, no matter if LIBRARY_NAME includes 'lib' or not.

If you have a makefile which is affected and you need to support older
versions of gnustep-make, you could remove 'lib' from the
LIBRARY_NAME.  That should install resources in the same directory on
all gnustep-make versions that support library resources (ie,
gnustep-make >= 2.0.x).
@end table

@section Version 2.2.0
@table @samp

@item libobjc library
You can now specify a particular libobjc library to use with the
--with-objc-lib-flag in configure.  Make now also automatically uses
-lobjc_gc when using garbage collection.

@item parallel building
Parallel building is supported now.  You can build using the normal make
mechanism, e.g. 'make -j 2'.

@item install -p
gnustep-make now uses 'install -p' by default when installing headers
and other files.  This preserves the file timestamps and can in some
cases reduce spurious rebuilds triggered by reinstalling headers that
have not been modified.  You can use the gnustep-make configure option
--disable-install-p to disable this behaviour and go back to always
using a standard 'install'.

@item uninstallation of resources
gnustep-make now is more careful and accurate when uninstalling
resources, which means that 'make uninstall' will do a better job at
removing directories that were created during by 'make install'.

@end table

@section Version 2.0.7

@table @samp

@item default installation
New configuration file that allows hardcore developers building
everything from source to specify arbitrary default installation domains
for the software.  You just need to copy the installation-domains.conf
file to the same directory as the GNUstep.conf file, and edit it to
customize the default installation domain (Thanks to Richard for the
idea).

@item --no-print-directory
gnustep-make now uses the --no-print-directory flag when invoking make
recursively, so the output has changed - starting from 2.0.7 it should
be shorter and more readable.

@item change to intermediate object file names
gnustep-make now supports having in the same project source files with
the same name, but a different extension - for example file.c and
file.m.  The names of intermediate object files have been internally
changed (for example, from file.o to file.c.o) to support this.

@item change in path checking algorithm in GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh
GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh perform more careful checks for duplicate
paths when adding paths to PATH and other path variables.  Now they
check each path separately before adding it, which in some cases will
produce smaller and less intrusive additions to PATH; in particular,
on FHS filesystem layout, they will never add /usr/bin or other system
paths if they are already there.  If you are in a situation where
there is an overlap between GNUstep paths and system paths and you are
using GNUstep.sh or GNUstep.csh, you may want to check the new values
of PATH, CLASSPATH, GUILE_LOAD_PATH, INFOPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
similar variables since they may be different from the old ones.

@item test applications linked against gnustep-gui by default
Test applications (that is, applications created using
test-application.make) are now linked against gnustep-gui by default.

@end table

@section Version 2.0.6

@table @samp

@item GNUSTEP_ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_PATHS
Added the --enable-absolute-install-paths option to configure on
Darwin.  Enabling this option modifies the process for building
dynamic libraries so the install_name stored within a library
is an absolute path.  Dynamic libraries with an absolute
install_name can be placed in non-standard locations, but may
not be moved from their designated location.

@item default location of GNUstep.conf on BSD systems
This has been changed to /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf to be consistent
across all Unix systems (except for Apple Mac OS X where it is
installed in /Library/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf).  To install in a
different location, use the --with-config-file=PATH option, as in
--with-config-file=/usr/pkg/etc/GNUstep.conf.

@item make.info renamed to gnustep-make.info
To prevent conflicts with the standard GNU 'make' info documentation,
the gnustep-make one has been renamed.  Now you can access it as in
'info gnustep-make' instead of 'info make', avoiding any conflicts and
confusion.  Please note that this info documentation is in the
core/make/Documentation subdirectory and at the moment is not
automatically installed unless you explicitly go in that subdirectory
and install it.

@end table

@section Version 2.0.5

@table @samp

@item default filesystem layout on apple-apple-apple
The default filesystem layout when using the apple-apple-apple
library-combo has been changed from 'gnustep' to the new 'apple'
filesystem layout, and on darwin the configuration file is by default
installed in /Library/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf instead of
/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf.  Using the 'gnustep' filesystem layout with
the apple-apple-apple library-combo did not make much sense; in
gnustep-make version 2.0.5 and newer, a ./configure on Apple Mac OS X
automatically chooses the right library-combo and filesystem layout to
compile and install Apple native frameworks and applications.

@item ~/GNUstep/GNUstep.sh
This script used to be automatically sourced whenever the main
GNUstep.sh file was sourced.  In gnustep-make version 2 (starting with
2.0.5) the file is no longer sourced.  If you are sourcing GNUstep.sh
at start-up and have a custom shell script that you'd like to source
in addition to GNUstep.sh, please source it in your shell init script
before or after sourcing GNUstep.sh.  The same applies to
~/GNUstep/GNUstep.csh.

@item xxx_NEEDS_GUI
This new variable can be used to specify that a project needs to be
linked against the gui library (or not).  If set to yes, the gui
library will be linked; if set to no, the gui library will not be
linked.  If unspecified, the generic variable NEEDS_GUI is used; if
that is also unspecified, the behaviour depends on the project type
(and is backwards-compatible): applications, bundles, frameworks,
palettes and libraries link automatically against the gui library;
other project types do not.  It is recommended that you set
xxx_NEEDS_GUI for all bundles, frameworks and libraries to clarify how
the linking should be done.

@item NEEDS_GUI
This new variable can be used to specify that all projects built by
this GNUmakefile need to be linked against the gui library (or not).
If set to yes, the gui library will be linked; if set to no, the gui
library will not be linked.  This behaviour can be overridden for
specific project targets by using the xxx_NEEDS_GUI variable (see
above).

@end table

@section Version 2.0.0

Version 2.0.0 is a new major release of gnustep-make which includes a
number of major changes compared to previous 1.x releases.  Most of
the changes are backwards compatible in the sense that old
GNUmakefiles will work with gnustep-make version 1 or 2 when used in
the same conditions (traditional GNUstep filesystem layout).  But
GNUmakefiles might need updating to work with the new filesystem
layout configurations that are allowed by gnustep-make version 2.

@table @samp

@item GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR
This variable is deprecated in gnustep-make version 2; you should
never use it.  gnustep-make version 2 supports installation domains
that are mapped to filesystem locations in arbitrary ways; for this
reason, specifying a GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR no longer makes sense.
If you need to relocate the whole installation (for example,
installing into /tmp to prepare a binary package) you should use
DESTDIR, as in 'make install DESTDIR=/tmp'.  To choose an installation
domain, you should use GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN, as in 'make
install GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=LOCAL'.  It's particularly
important that you remove any reference to GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR
inside your own GNUmakefiles.

If your GNUmakefiles contains references to GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR
(or similar), you should remove them by replacing them with references
to the actual logical directory into which you want to install.  For
example, if your GNUmakefile is trying to install something into
GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR/Library/Libraries, you need to replace it
with GNUSTEP_LIBRARIES.  This is important for non-GNUstep filesystem
layouts (where, eg, GNUSTEP_LIBRARIES should be set to /usr/lib or
/usr/local/lib or /home/nicola/GNUstep/Library/Libraries depending on
the installation domain); in that case, gnustep-make will manage
GNUSTEP_LIBRARIES for you.  Please check the file @file{filesystem}
for more information on the available variables.

@item GNUSTEP_xxx_ROOT
The variables GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT,
GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT, GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT and GNUSTEP_ROOT are
deprecated in gnustep-make version 2 and you should never use them.
gnustep-make version 2 supports installation domains that are mapped
to filesystem locations in arbitrary ways; for this reason, a variable
like GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT has no longer any use.

If your GNUmakefiles contains references to GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT (or
similar), you should remove them by replacing them with references to
the actual logical directory into which you want to install.  For
example, if your GNUmakefile is trying to install something into
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Libraries, you need to replace it with
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES.  Please check the file @file{filesystem} for
more information on the available variables.

@item gnustep-make ./configure and install options
The options to configure (and make install), particularly the ones to
determine the filesystem layout, have been radically changed in
gnustep-make version 2.  If you have a building or packaging script
for gnustep-make, you need to make sure you replace your old
./configure options with the new ones.  In particular, the
--with-system-root, --with-local-root and --with-network-root
configure options have been replaced by the more powerful
--with-layout configure option.  Also, configure no longer imports an
existing configuration file so you need to make sure that you pass all
the options every time.  'make install special_prefix=xxx' has been
replaced by 'make install DESTDIR=xxx'.

@item make debug=yes is now the default
The default used to be 'make debug=no'; this has now been changed to
be 'make debug=yes'.  To get the traditional behaviour, please use
'make debug=no'.

@item RPM support rewritten
The RPM support has been rewritten so if you're using gnustep-make
to automatically generate RPM packages for your software, you may
want to review the process.  In particular, there is no longer
a distinction between debug and non-debug packages.

@item xxx_PREPROCESS_INFO_PLIST
This variable is now obsolete and can be removed; gnustep-make version 2
can automatically detect plists that need preprocessing.

@item Framework default version
The default framework resource version changed from 'A' to
INTERFACE_VERSION (which is set, by default, to '0').

@item Microsoft Windows updates
If you are using Microsoft Windows, you probably want to check
the new installation instructions and reinstall everything.

@item Java tools location changed
Java tools are now installed into GNUSTEP_JAVA rather than
in a subdirectory of GNUSTEP_TOOLS.

@item resource-set.make install directory
The variable xxx_RESOURCE_FILES_INSTALL_DIR for resource-set.make has
been deprecated in favour of xxx_INSTALL_DIR.  For backwards
compatibility, you may want to set them both:

xxx_INSTALL_DIR = $(GNUSTEP_LIBRARY)/Libraries/Resources/xxx

xxx_RESOURCE_FILES_INSTALL_DIR = /Library/Libraries/Resources/xxx

@item INSTALL_ROOT_DIR
All instances of INSTALL_ROOT_DIR in user's makefiles should be
replaced with DESTDIR.

@item GNUSTEP_FLATTENED
All checks for GNUSTEP_FLATTENED should be updated to check the new
variable GNUSTEP_IS_FLATTENED instead, and to compare it explicitly to
'yes' and 'no', and assume that '' means 'yes'.

@item ./shared_obj
The ./shared_obj, ./shared_debug_obj directories and similar are no longer
created.  You can use ./obj instead.

@item library names
All libraries now have the same name.

@item application names
All applications now have the same name.

@end table

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