Re: failure to build base

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

> It is. I introduced a autoconf check that is supposed to avoid just this
> situation. So apparently it's not entirely reliable. With what
> Machine/OS/Compiler combination are you seeing this problem? Also it
> would probably be useful to see the part of config.log related to atomic
>
>    
configure:5063: $? = 0
configure:5078: result: yes
configure:5114: checking whether the compiler supports atomic operations
configure:5137: gcc -c -g -O2  -I/System/Library/Headers 
-I/Local/Library/Headers -I/Local/Library/Headers conftest.c >&5
configure:5144: $? = 0
configure:5159: result: yes
configure:5186: checking checking whether atomic operations require an 
external library
configure:5209: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -I/System/Library/Headers 
-I/Local/Library/Headers -I/Local/Library/Headers  
-L/System/Library/Libraries -L/Local/Library/Libraries 
-L/Local/Library/Libraries conftest.c >&5
/var/tmp//ccQCKIO2.o(.text+0x23): In function `main':
/usr/home/multix/gnustep-cvs/devmodules/core/base/conftest.c:80: 
undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4'

<...>

configure:5240: result: yes
configure:5244: checking checking for atomic operations from libgcc
configure:5267: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -I/System/Library/Headers 
-I/Local/Library/Headers -I/Local/Library/Headers  
-L/System/Library/Libraries -L/Local/Library/Libraries 
-L/Local/Library/Libraries -lgcc conftest.c >&5
/var/tmp//cc8wXyAs.o(.text+0x23): In function `main':
/usr/home/multix/gnustep-cvs/devmodules/core/base/conftest.c:80: 
undefined reference to `__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_4'

<...>
configure:5304: result: no

both the extenal library and gcc yield the same error, one returns yes 
and one no? I'm confused.


Riccardo