Re: Building with GNUstep make on Panther/Tiger

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi,

> > we are trying to build bundles and tools on Tiger using GNUstep make. 
> > While linking a bundle we get
> >
> >  Linking bundle HolzPoolBundle ...
> > ld: can't locate file for: -lbundle1.o
> > make[1]: *** 
> > [/Build/HolzPoolBundle/HolzPoolBundle.bundle/./HolzPoolBundle] Error >> 1
> >
> > While linking a tool we get
> >
> >  Linking tool Adaptor ...
> > ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt1.o
> > make[1]: *** [/Build/Adaptor/shared_obj/Adaptor] Error 1
> > make: *** [Adaptor.all.tool.variables] Error 2
>
> Well I know that Panther works fine with GNUstep.  I don't know about 
> Tiger - I've heard people have had trouble with it.

Any chance Frameworks, tools and apps built on Panther (using GNUstep 
make) will run on Tiger? At least the apps build on Jaguar don't really 
work on Tiger which is more or less to be expected. We e.g. have a 
subclass of NSImageView in one app. If Apple modified the ivars on 
NSImageView from Jaguar to Panther/Tiger this will of course break 
everything. I find it discouraging that apps aren't binary compatible 
between 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4, although I understand why. I guess Apple 
tries to solve this issue with xCode by creating fat bundles containing 
code for all three OS versions.

How do you guys manage this in production environments where not all 
Macs can always be upgraded to the newest OS? I would hate to have 3 
different dirs with binaries on the NFS server for the 3 different 
OSes. Until now we haven't been able to build anything on Tiger with 
GNUstep make. This is a problem since all Macs shipped from now on will 
come with Tiger and won't run Panther (just tried that with a new G5 
iMac).

Thanks,

  Andreas