Re: Compiling gnustep-base-1.5.0 with OpenBSD3.1

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Ingo Brombach wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I would like to try out Programming with Objective-C. I`m a OpenBSD 
> User so I try to get the necessary things running with this OS.
> Following the HOWTO (except the version numbers) everything went fine, 
> but while trying to get gnu-base (1.5.0) compiled under OpenBSD3.1 the 
> following occurs:
>
> source /opt/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.csh
> ./configure
> gmake
> (cd Source/Additions/static_obj/ix86/openbsd3.1/gnu-gnu-gnu;
>         ar -vr subproject.o GSMime.o;ar -vr subproject.o GSXML.o\
> )
> gmake
>
> The additional ar - run was a hint from Marek Behr who encountered 
> similar problems with  SGI IRIX 6.5.
> then I get those error messages at the end of this message.

I think where you put 'subproject.o' above, you should probably be using 
the name of the GNUstep
base library (its path is probably 
Source/static_obj/ix86/openbsd3.1/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep_base.a)
so that you insert GSMime.o and GSXML.o into it.

I don't know why the build process isn't doing that automatically for 
you though.

Even with that change, I'm not sure that building GNUstep for static 
linking will work... but
I don't know BSD.