Re: gnustep-base-1.5.2 on darwin

[Adam Fedor]

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:35 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:

> In target.make, I had to add
> -read_only_relocs warning
> to the shared_lib_link_cmd for gnu-compiler. I don't think two darwin
> sections in target.make and HOW_TO are necessary, both darwin5 and
> darwin6 should have identical instructions (to the user and the 
> Computer ;-)
> The recommended compiler should be gcc-3.2.2, because gcc-3.2.1 did not
> build out of the box.
> It should be mentioned in the HOW_TO that you need to
> configure --with-library-combo=gnu-gnu-gnu
> if you want the whole library on darwin.
I put this in the freeze branch.


> nsarray crashes immediately
darwin gcc(?) can't handle nested functions...
> nsbundle doesn't load the bundle
bundles don't work.
> nsinvocation crashes with this output:
I fixed this by changing mframe MFRAME_STRUCT_BYREF to 0, but then the 
program ended up crashing on the last line (very strange), so I will 
probably put this in the main branch until I can do more testing.

> nsconnection_client crashes while nsconnection_server works perfectly 
> and
> receives/sends structs to ix86-linux and sparc-solaris2.7:
Also fixed using the same change as above.

Thanks for the info!