FreeBSD problems - a solution (of sorts)

[Pete French]

Well, I finally managed to ger a running version of GNustep up on FreeBSD 4.7
(more or less). TThe solutoion in the end was to abandon using gcc3 and go
back to tge gcc 2.95.4 supplied wiith the operating system - plus the
gnustep-libobjc code (from ports).

This will now build and run applications correctly (which is a relief) so I
can gte back to develoiping code rather than worrying about the intricacies of
gdb and the libraries. I am still seeing some coredums - but those are
in the MesaOS libraries with XFree86 so I dont think they are GNustep
related.

For anyone else wnating to do this - you need to install the base/make
packages from CVS, then install the gnustep-objc from ports as it
depends on thes... and then rebuild and install base/make a secoond time.
This is because the second time you configure the base/make package it will
give you a 'yes' for thread support. Always configure the packages with
"CC='cc -pthread'" to ensure that the BSD compiler will link in the thread
library. I also disabled openssl and the gsnd code in the configure and
had to explicitly specify that libtiff was in /usr/local/lib. Other than
that it seems to work fine...

Thanks for all the advice regarding my wierd compiler problems over
the last efw weeks. I know I havent so much solved them as found a
workaround - but at least it has got working code again.

-bat.