Re: libobjc2/gnustep-base also failing under FreeBSD

[Andreas Fink]

I reinstalled a fresh new FreeBSD VM and did install the package gnustep-base again.

Now  /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools/gnustep-config returns absolutely nothing:

$  /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools/gnustep-config --objc-libs

$  /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools/gnustep-config --objc-flags

WTF. Like every time I try to use gnustep on any system there is some magic thing happening <somewhere> which screws up my builds. I've now tried on 6 different OS versions/build environments. I think the gnustep-make / build environment is so delicate that it's time to rethink it seriously. Otherwise Gnustep can never become mainstream.

It's a mystic combination of compiler version, linker, environment-variables,  gnustep-make config files. This is a recipe for failure.

And I'm only talking about gnustep-base/libobjc2 , not  even gui or anymore difficult dependencies. Just really basic stuff.

On 11 Feb 2019, at 17:07, David Chisnall <gnustep@theravensnest.org> wrote:

On 11/02/2019 15:56, Andreas Fink wrote:

[root@freebsd /etc]# /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Tools/gnustep-config --objc-libs
-rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -pthread -fexceptions -fobjc-runtime=gnustep-1.8 -fblocks -L/root/GNUstep/Library/Libraries -L/usr/local/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries -L/usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries -L/usr/local/lib -lobjc -fobjc-nonfragile-abi -lm

You probably still have some stuff in /etc or /usr/local/etc from your previous gnustep-make install that it's picking up (e.g. a GNUstep.conf?).

David

Andreas Fink

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