Re: Making swarm-1.2 work with redhat 5.1

[Sven N. Thommesen]

Don't forget the magic incantations 'CC=egcs LIBS=-lpthread' before
./configure for *all* the parts of the install! [libffi, tclobjc, blt] I
see from your log below that your configure step found the gcc compiler,
but on 5.1 that compiler doesn't have any objectiveC stuff with it, AFAIK.
(Your log shows that configure didn't find objc stuff -- it's not a patch
you need, 'tis the right compiler!)

Cheers,
--Sven


At 07:58 PM 7/14/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>> I'm not trying to be a smart alec by asking this, but are you sure
>> you've got
>>    1. tclobjc compiled correctly?  (does make check give a "hello from
>> tclobjc"?)
>
>I tried to run "configure" in the tclobjc dir and got:
>
>loading cache ./config.cache
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
>checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
>checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>checking for ranlib... ranlib
>checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
>checking for prefix by checking for tclsh... /usr/bin/tclsh
>checking for NeXT compiler
>checking for objc_next_class in -lobjc... no
>You must apply the patch ./gcc.patch to the gcc source dir
>then recompile and install libobjc.a,
>then rerun this configure script.
>
>- I can't find gcc.patch anywhere - the version is 2.7.2.3 that comes with
>RH5.1 which is the same as the one on the Swarm site - does the Swarm gcc
>come with the patch?
>
>>    2. Do you have the directory name exactly correct in your configure
>> statement?
>
>Yes - except that I have now changed to tclobj to tclobjc to more correct.
>
>>    3. If you tried configure before, did you type "make distclean" 
>> between efforts? If you had the blt directory wrong before, it will
>> never get fixed unless you erase all the sources and untar it again
>> or try make distclean.  In my case, it seems sometimes even make
>distclean
>> does not work and I have to remove the whole source tree.  Some people
>> have written to say I'm wrong there, so I can't explain why it doesn't
>> work.  
>
>I untarred before every attempt - I think it is tclobjc compile problem.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Phil.
>
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