Re: error building base

[Fred Kiefer]

Chris Meyer wrote:

> When I configure and build base I end up with errors like the following:
>
> -lgnustep-base -lobjc -lz -lxml2 -lz -lm -lm -I.
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgnustep-base
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [shared_obj/ix86/cygwin/gnu-gnu-gnu/autogsdoc.exe] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [autogsdoc.all.tool.variables] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/meyer/gnustep/core/base/Tools'
> make: *** [internal-all] Error 2
>
> Notice that I am trying to build gnustep-base, but it is being included 
> as a library when compiling the sub-project Tools. There was also an 
> error trying to build the SSL project but I removed the -lgnustep-base


I thought that Richard fixed this problem in CVS some days ago. But it 
might as well be that it did not show up for me again after I did get 
base successfully compiled. This is easy to do: Leave out the normal 
make step and do a make install!

> Is this working for anyone else or is it an error in my configuration or 
> is it an error in the make files?
>
> By the way, I'm using gcc 3.1 under Cygwin 1.3.10 on W2K.

Is gcc 3.1 with objc support already available for Cygwin or did you 
compile it yourself?

Cheers
Fred