Re: base fails to build - exception problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 30 Aug 2015, at 18:30, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> Those flags should have nothing to do with variable visibility.  The most 
>> likely problem is with the wrong runtime being found in one of those cases.
>> So you should look at the -I flags saying where the header files are found.
>> For instance, -I/home/multix/GNUstep/Library/Headers might be pointing to 
>> different objc headers (it’s not mentioned in the check at configure time).
> 
> I don't have local runtimes in my home directory and to be sure, I
> removed everyting from /System and /Local.
> 
> I should have only two runtimes on the system:
> - the gcc internal one
> - libobjc2 installed in /usr/local
> 
> See here what a search of objc.h finds:
> 
> /usr/local/include/objc/objc.h
> /usr/local/lib/gcc5/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd9.3/5.2.0/include/objc/objc.h
> 
> in both configure and build run I see -I/usr/local/include so the
> libobjc2 runtime should be found.
> 
> I could remove libobjc2 and rely on the more limited gcc runtime, but it
> it should work to have a second runtime: headers are included in both
> configure and build!

Well the other possibility is some error in the check in configure … you’d have 
to look at the log for that as I suggested first … I don’t know how the check 
for the presence of the variable would give a false positive.