Re: GDL2 can't build [Was: Re: Debian and Ubuntu packages]

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 09:36 CEST, Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Germán A. Arias wrote:
>
> > El lun, 06-08-2012 a las 00:02 +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach escribió:
> >> On Sunday, August 5, 2012 20:09 CEST, Philippe Roussel 
> >> <p.o.roussel@free.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Le 05/08/2012 20:05, Sebastian Reitenbach a écrit :
> >>>>> I just tried to add gdl2 and EOModelEditor packages, starting with the
> >>>>> original debian packaging, and I failed...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The thing is, I cannot compile gdl2 from svn. Can someone take a look ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Works for me against latest releases of gnustep-core on OpenBSD 5.1 i386.
> >>>
> >>> I'm getting :
> >>>
> >>>> Making all for tool gdlgsdoc...
> >>>> Linking tool gdlgsdoc ...
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `GDL2_NSStringClass'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `GDL2_NSMutableDictionaryClass'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOKeyValueUnarchiver'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `EOClassDescriptionNeededForEntityNameNotification'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOAndQualifier'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOFault'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOQualifier'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EODataSource'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOEditingContext'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to 
> >>>> `__objc_class_name_EOKeyValueQualifier'
> >>>> ../EOAccess/./obj/libEOAccess.so: undefined reference to `EOUpdatedKey'
> >>
> >> and you don't seem to be alone:
> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?35558
> >>
> >> Sebastian
> >>
> >
> > I have the same problem to build GDL2. This is with GNUstep from SVN and
> > GCC 4.6.1.
>
> Is this on a (more or less) recent Debian system? I have seen similar errors 
> for another project when upgrading to Ubunutu 12.04. In the end it turned out 
> that these errors were due to a linker change, which no longer automatically 
> re-exports symbols from shared objects/libraries that are defined in other 
> libraries. Adding a few more -l flags to ADDITIONAL_TOOL_LIBS solved the 
> problem for me. Since I'm not using (and have never used) GDL2, you'll have 
> to find out the correct makefile variables and libraries yourself.

another thought could be: Do you maybe have an older version of gdl2 installed, 
which installed the EOModeler from the main directory?

Sebastian


>
> Wolfgang
>