Re: libobjcxx

[David Chisnall]

On 5 Oct 2012, at 10:56, Kal Conley wrote:

> If I move to using 'Makefile' instead of GNUmakefile to build it then do
> I only need to run core/make/configure once after I build libobjc2 and
> pass the path of the library to configure?

Yes.  Part of the reason for the Makefile is to solve the circular dependency 
problem.  GNUstep Make depends on a working libobjc, so using it to install 
libobjc doesn't work.  

On a modern platform for Objective-C development, you may not even have GCC 
installed, so the bootstrapping process on, for example, FreeBSD, was to 
install GCC and its libobjc, then install GNUstep Make, then uninstall GCC and 
its libobjc, then install GNUstep libobjc, then reconfigure and reinstall 
GNUstep Make, then proceed with the rest of the GNUstep install.  Now, you just 
install libobjc first, then install the rest.  

David

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