bug#29644: gcc-objc is unusable without its 'gcc' executable

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 11:01:44PM +0200, Vivien Kraus via Bug reports for GNU 
Guix wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I would like to learn and play with gnustep with objective-C, but it
> seems like GCC does not come with objective-C in Guix.
> 
> I don’t know much about GCC or how Guix packages it. There is an early
> comment by Ricardo Wurmus:
> 
> > The fix here is to patch “lang-spec.h”, so that it does not limit the
> > gcc executable to the configured set of languages.  This way we will
> > be
> > able to use the same gcc executable with different languages.
> 
> The source of gcc-objc has a file named gcc-12.3.0/gcc/objc/lang-
> specs.h that claims to be included as a static array literal, but I
> don’t know what the rest of this citation means.

I've appended a diff of the lib output of gcc and gcc-objc. According to
du adding objc support to regular gcc would increase the lib output by
368K. I think our best option is to move forward with adding objc/objc++
as languages which gcc simply provides without needing a separate
package.


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