Why gnustep-config outputs nothing for any parameter?

Question

Regardless of what I run:

gnustep-config --debug-flags
gnustep-config --objc-flags
gnustep-config --base-libs

It outputs nothing. How would I debug this?

PS: the OS details: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, gnustep-make-2.6.1-1

PPS:

zerkms@ubuntu-1204-2-server-amd64:~$ . /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
zerkms@ubuntu-1204-2-server-amd64:~$ gnustep-config --debug-flags
zerkms@ubuntu-1204-2-server-amd64:~$ gnustep-config --base-libs
zerkms@ubuntu-1204-2-server-amd64:~$ gnustep-config --objc-flags

and after executing GNUstep.sh there are a lot of GNUSTEP_* environment variables added:

GNUSTEP_IS_FLATTENED=yes
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT=/usr/Local
GNUSTEP_HOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/zerkms/GNUstep/Library/Libraries:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib
GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/zerkms/GNUstep/Library/Libraries/Guile:/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Guile:/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Guile
GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES=/usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles
GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT=/usr/Network
GNUSTEP_FLATTENED=yes
GNUSTEP_HOST_OS=linux-gnu
GNUSTEP_HOST_VENDOR=pc
PATH=/home/zerkms/GNUstep/Tools:/home/zerkms/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU=x86_64
GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=/home/zerkms/GNUstep
GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=/usr/System
GNUSTEP_PATHLIST=/usr/System:/usr/Network:/usr/Local:/home/zerkms/GNUstep
CLASSPATH=/home/zerkms/GNUstep/Library/Libraries/Java:/usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Java:/usr/lib/GNUstep/Libraries/Java
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info::/usr/local/share/info::/home/zerkms/GNUstep/Library/Documentation/info:

Answer 1

After doing your installation did you include the GNUstep.sh script into your environment first?

For example:

. /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

References

• 3.1 Installing the Core Libraries
• 4. Additional Installation

Answer 2

I had similar issue. After reading code, I found out that make isn't installed Please check that you have installed make

# apt-get install make