Re: crash upon startup in GWorkcenter, Recycler, ProjectCenter and Gorm

[Josh Freeman]

On Dec 20, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> > On 19 Dec 2017, at 20:33, Josh Freeman <gnustep_lists@twilightedge.com 
> > > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> >  This appears to be the same issue as the Base/GUI ivar-offset  
> > mismatch that was discussed back in April [1] & June [2].
> >
> >  While the issue still hasn't been fixed, there is a workaround,  
> > which is to use an older version of GNUstep Make.
> >
> >  However, the workaround is already included in the "16.04, 16.10,  
> > & 17.04" install script at http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_under_Ubuntu_Linux 
> >  , so did you happen to make any changes to the script before  
> > running it, or perhaps run it on a machine that already had an  
> > earlier GNUstep install? (I just tried the wiki script on a clean,  
> > up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04 VM (32bit) - the only script change was to  
> > set the PROMPT var to 'false' to avoid having to press <Return>  
> > after each build - and the built apps seem to run OK).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Josh
> >
> >
> > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2017-04/msg00070.html
> > [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2017-06/msg00026.html
>
> gnustep-make has been using -fobjc-runtime= rather than -fobjc- 
> nonfragile-abi for quita long time, but I just found that the  
> gnustep-base configure script was still adding the obsolete -fobjc- 
> nonfragile-abi flag when building nonfragile
> I've just removed that addition of  -fobjc-nonfragile-abi from the  
> current gnustep-base in git, so if gnustep is built for the new  
> runtime with clang (the ng-gnu-gnu library combo) neither make nor  
> base should add ther old flag.

   Just tried the Ubuntu script from the wiki on a clean, up-to-date  
Ubuntu 16.04 VM (32bit), but changed the script to use the current  
gnustep-make instead of the old version (removed the workaround for  
the ivar-offset issue). Gnustep-base now fails to build, with the  
following error(s):

 Compiling file GSConcreteValue.m ...
In file included from In file included from In file included from  
GSBlocks.m:23:
In file included from ../Headers/Foundation/NSObject.h:30:
In file included from ../Headers/Foundation/NSObjCRuntime.h:38:
../Headers/GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h:290:10: error: "You are  
building gnustep-base using the objc-nonfragile-abi but your
      gnustep-base was not configured to use it."
#        error "You are building gnustep-base using the objc- 
nonfragile-abi but your gnustep-base was not configured to use it."


   Full build output for gnustep-base attached:

gnustep-base_build_output.txt
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