Re: Problem building gnustep-base

[Dennis Leeuw]

Thanks,

Stupid me just skipped the specific.html documentation file in the gcc tree ...
binutils and libc need to be updated first. Sorry for the unnessesary e-mails I 
caused, if I only had read the
entire documentation.

Dennis

Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dennis Leeuw wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am still stuck with building GNUstep base and gcc 3.0.4
> > Maybe someone can shed some light on the following:
> > >From the configure script I copied and created conftest.c:
> > #include "confdefs.h"
> > #include "/usr/src/SPM/gnustep/core/base/config/config.objc.m"
> >
> > Then I ran:
> > /usr/GNUstep/bin/gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -fgnu-runtime 
> > -I/usr/GNUstep/System/Headers -x objective-c
> > -L/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu 
> > -L/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu
> > conftest.c  -lobjc
> >
> > The output shows:
> > In file included from conftest.c:2:
> > /usr/src/SPM/gnustep/core/base/config/config.objc.m:5: warning: incomplete 
> > implementation of class
> > `NXConstantString'
> > /usr/src/SPM/gnustep/core/base/config/config.objc.m:5: warning: method 
> > definition for `-length' not found
> > /usr/src/SPM/gnustep/core/base/config/config.objc.m:5: warning: method 
> > definition for `-cString' not found
> >
> > Then I ran ./conftest which results in:
> > ./conftest: error in loading shared libraries:
> > /usr/GNUstep/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.0.4/libobjc.so.1: undefined 
> > symbol: __dso_handle
> >
> > And I don't have the slightest idea what I should be looking for next.
> >
> > For those curious I build gcc 3.0.4 with the following options:
> > --prefix=/usr/GNUstep --enable-shared --enable-threads=pthreads 
> > --enable-languages=c,objc
> > --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
> >
> > Then I build ffcall, gmp and libxml2-2.4.15 which all went fine. So my idea 
> > is that it is within the objc
> > part.
> >
> > Could someone help me out, point me in the right direction...
> > Like what is __dso_handle???
> >
>
> I had the same problem. You have to use newer version of binutils. I am
> using 2.11.92, but it should work with >2.9.5.
>
> Stefan
>
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