Problems building on RH8.0 (was Re: Customize.m

[Paul E Johnson]

I've been working on this very hard.  I just posted about gcc yesterday 
in here, but I think the long and short of it this.

1. gcc 3.2 has serious bugs in it that prevent you from compiling swarm. 
Their email list has been most helpful on that.  You can hack and hack 
on Swarm and eventually make it compile and run, but it is not very fun.

2. I have reported those bugs in the gcc list and they were fixed 
upstream in the gcc snap 20020909 (and perhaps in later snaps).  I've 
made rpms for that snap of gcc. That shows as version 3.3

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/miscSupportSoftware/gcc-upgrades/3.3/

I could not get Ada support to compile so I cut that component. I take 
no personal responsibility for this, and if some file in some package is 
not what your system expects, sorry. They do work on my one RH8 test system.

3. After you upgrade gcc to 3.3 20020909 or later, there are 3 patches 
that the Swarm source will need. they are:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Customize.patch
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/ObjectSaver.patch
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Signs2.patch

Note one of these fixes the Customize problem you just mentioned.

4. I will eventually be giving out RPMs as soon as I overcome a bug in 
libtool that RH8 and gcc-3.3 exposed (posted about that this morning)

jason sackett wrote:
> In building the latest swarm I get this compile error fairly well into
> the build:
>
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../libobjc -I../..
> -I../../libobjc -I.. -I./.. -I./../collections -I./../misc
> -I/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1/include -I/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1/include/linux
> -I../../avcall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DBUILDING_SWARM -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-import
> -Wno-protocol -Werror -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-unknown-pragmas -c
> Customize.m -MT Customize.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/Customize.TPlo  -fPIC
> -DPIC -o .libs/Customize.lo
> cc1obj: warnings being treated as errors
> Customize.m: In function `+[Customize(s) _customizeBegin:]':
> Customize.m:106: warning: cannot find class (factory) method
> Customize.m:106: warning: return type for `createBegin:' defaults to id
> make[4]: *** [Customize.lo] Error 1
>
>
> I got the source from CVS and I ran the default configure.
> Any information on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. 
> I am running RH8.0 on a dell laptop (inspiron 8200) with kernel
> 2.4.18-17.8.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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