Re: Problem building with 'Native Objc Exceptions' enabled

[Richard Stonehouse]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:01:03PM +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:26, Richard Stonehouse wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:59:53AM +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 21 Jun 2010, at 23:36, Richard Stonehouse wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I'm trying to build the latest stable GNUstep - using make version
> >>> 2.4.0 and base version 1.20.0 (and also base 1.20.1) - with Native
> >>> Objective C Exceptions enabled, on openSUSE 11.2 (gcc version 4.4.1).
> >>> 
> >>> The GWorkspace build fails because the configure script in
> >>> GWMetadata/gmds does not detect the presence of PDFKit, even though
> >>> PDFKit is actually present.
> > 
> > ...snip...
> > 
> >> Agreed.
> >> 
> >> The configure script test for PDFKit (GWMetadata/gmds/aclocal.m4)
> >> is passing the wrong flags ...looking at it, it's clearly written
> >> for an ancient version of gnustep and just covers the options that
> >> were common some years ago.  I have made an attempt at altering it
> >> to use the correct flags (by using gnustep-config to provide the
> >> flags) in svn trunk, but I don't have PDFKit to test it.
> > 
> > Thanks. That makes the test in GWMetadata/gmds detect PDFKit OK, but
> > there appears to be another in GWMetadata/gmds/mdextractor/Extractors
> > that is still failing. Apologies that I don't have the technical
> > knowledge to suggest a fix.
> 
> Looks like another copy of the aclocal.m4 was being used there.  I
> updated that too.

Sorry ... yet another ... in Inspector (hope that's the last!)

-- 
    Richard Stonehouse