Let's keep this on the list :-)

Other people will know more about this than I do.

On 30. 5. 2013., at 02:51, Frank Rehwinkel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice.  I'm able to hack the config and makefiles too.  I 
> just think someone went to all the trouble to make the system build by 
> tweaking just a few knobs, the intend wasn't that we edit scripts and by 
> trial and error, figure out what it takes to build.  
> 
> The two files I found that seem out of date are 
> ${GNUSTEP_MAKE_PREFIX}/Library/GNUstep/Makefiles/library-combo (from 
> installing core/make) with lines
> ifeq ($(OBJC_RUNTIME_LIB), apple)
> 127   RUNTIME_FLAG = -fnext-runtime
> 128   RUNTIME_DEFINE = -DNeXT_RUNTIME=1
> 129   OBJC_LIBS = $(OBJC_LIB_FLAG)
> 130 endif
> 
> and core/base/configure with lines
> OBJC_RUNTIME_LIB=`echo $LIBRARY_COMBO | tr '-' ' ' | awk '{print $1}'`
> { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking the Objective-C runtime" >&5
> $as_echo_n "checking the Objective-C runtime... " >&6; }
> if test "$OBJC_RUNTIME_LIB" = "nx" -o "$OBJC_RUNTIME_LIB" = "apple"; then
>   { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: NeXT" >&5
> $as_echo "NeXT" >&6; }
>   OBJCFLAGS="$OBJCFLAGS -fnext-runtime -DNeXT_RUNTIME"
> elif test "$OBJC_RUNTIME_LIB" = "gnugc"; then
>   { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: GNU" >&5
> $as_echo "GNU" >&6; }
>   OBJCFLAGS="$OBJCFLAGS -fgnu-runtime"
>   OBJC_WITH_GC=yes
> else
>   { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: GNU" >&5
> $as_echo "GNU" >&6; }
>   OBJCFLAGS="$OBJCFLAGS -fgnu-runtime"
> fi
> 
> I'm puzzled by the other thread right now that contained the thousands of 
> lines of diffs for getting GNUstep to compile on OSX because the configure 
> script changes in those diffs didn't use -fobj-runtime=x either.  Maybe they 
> are not trying to use objc2 nor a newer clang so are okay if the apple 
> runtime library is used.  I was going to give those diffs a try tomorrow.
> 
> -Frank
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 29. 5. 2013., at 23:25, Frank Rehwinkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> One of the GNUstep makefiles adds -fnext-runtime when the environment is 
>> determined to be apple, as does the configure script.
> 
> Which one(s)? Which makefile and configure script? :-)
> 
>> 
>> But the gnustep core/base/configure scripts fails when I try to run it after 
>> installing objc2.  
>> 
>> Why is there no option for getting -fobjc-runtime=gnustep-1.7 added instead? 
>>  This appears to make the difference between the configure failing or 
>> working in my setup.  -fobjc-runtime=<something> has been supported by clang 
>> since version 3.2.  And how does this even work for anyone without this new 
>> option being supported?
> 
> If you need to add this manually, you could hack it together by editing files 
> in /usr/local/GNUstep/Library/Makefiles -- pardon me if I got the path wrong. 
> There is a "config" file, if my memory serves me well.
> 
> This is how I forced old Debian GNUstep packages from 2010 to use Debian's 
> clang:
>     
> http://blog.vucica.net/2010/12/getting-objective-c-2-0-to-work-on-debians-gnustep-with-clang.html
> Under Debian the relevant file was:
>     /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/config.make
> 
> --
> Ivan Vučica
> [email protected] - http://ivan.vucica.net/
> 
> 

--
Ivan Vučica
[email protected] - http://ivan.vucica.net/

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