Re: HelpViewer 0.3 : error while linking

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Patrick,

thanks for your interest in GAP application, first thing.
I am revived my Raspberry PI 1 to "jessie" (still unsure if I can update 
it further, but i had to reinstall, the past attempt to update it 
bricked it).
Then I also have RPI3 and RPI4 to test with GNUstep. You just gave me 
the impulse to buy another one and keep it as light computer at my 
parents! Seems to work fine, but e.g. I noticed that for some reason 
GNUMail is not 100% reliable like on x86, needs to be tested further.


Patrick Cardona wrote:
> So maybe that particular app which is not useful for everyone (I am 
> not a member of salesforce.com)
> should not be a part of the 'gap' ?

Why shouldn't it? GAP contains many apps, you are not forced an "install 
everything" approach.
Also, a beginner should be best served by packages - if available.

> I think a good approach for the beginners should allow a simple make at the 
> root of the gap tree  to discover
> the basic apps.
> But If some app like Databasin is blocking the whole making process, this root 
> GNUmakefile in the top of the gap tree
> becomes useless, and somebody guessing how to make the apps might find by hand 
> what bundle to make first,
> and son on.
> Also, like Patryck dit it for the GNUstep core project, it would be very useful 
> to supply a script to get first all the relative dependencies.

You are not forced to build & install everything. Personally I don't use 
those top-level makefiles either, I install and upgrade the specific apps.

> Have seen that... I don't know, all this linker stuff is a mess. I did try
> > with gcc and its runtime and it worked some weeks ago. So many variants,
> > sorry.
> Well, I wanted to use clang because many advices at the list said it would be 
> better to learn Objectice-C and create new apps with that modern compiler.
> But I feel that with my RPI 32 bit, and the tests you did, I should revert to 
> the 'old' GCC and make it all again,

you really should be able to use both and both should work in my opinion 
and then decide your won taste what to use.
If only Cythiune is giving you erros, maybe somebody has a hint on how 
to fix linking!



> > (do you have alsa, libasound and it's dev libraries installed? otherwise try
> > some other backend
> yes. I did install those ALSA dependencies.
>
> )

if somebody can reproduce... I never compiled cynthiune on raspberry, 
since I don't have sound attached to it, but I could try.

Riccardo