Compilation errors on SuSE 8.0

[Johnston, Simon]

Hello everyone,
SuSE comes with WindowMaker but not any of the GNUstep libraries (doesn't even install Objective-C with GCC by default). I'm trying to compile a system from scratch, which may be a problem I guess as the WindowMaker stuff may be be using some existing libraries. Can anyone help me with a build issue, or does anyone have any binary rpms?

Anyway, here is the list of activities so far, note that the ffcall library failed but I couldn't see any dependencies in LaunchPad so I carried on without it. My problem is in gnustep-base:

1) SuSE Installed GCC 2.95.3
2) downloaded gnustep-make-1.4.0
        # ./configure
        # make install
        # . /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
3) downloaded ffcall-1.8d
        # ./configure
        # make install
                => failed, libtool error
4) Installed gobjc-2.95.3-216 from SuSE disks, SuSE does not by default
5) downloaded gnustep-objc-1.2.2.tar
        # make install
        # set make shared=no
        # cp static/.../libobjc_s.a /usr/lib/gcc.../libobjc.a
6) downloaded gnustep-base-1.4.1
        # ./configure
        # make install
                => failed.... Here is the config.log

configure:6363: checking whether objc really works
configure:6385: 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     >&5

In file included from configure:6380:
config/config.objc.m:5: warning: incomplete implementation of class `NXConstantString'
config/config.objc.m:5: warning: method definition for `-length' not found
config/config.objc.m:5: warning: method definition for `-cString' not found
/usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `__objc_class_name_Object' are not defined
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_create'
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_key_delete'
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_mutex_trylock'
/usr/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/libobjc.so: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:6388: $? = 1
configure: program exited with status 1
configure: failed program was:
#line 6379 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include "./config/config.objc.m"
configure:6412: result: no
configure:6420: error: The Objective-C compiler doesn't work or is not installed properly.

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Simon Johnston (sjohnsto@rational.com)
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