Re: FreeBSD - no luck with libobjc2

[Johannes Brakensiek]

Hi Riccardo,

thank you for your reply!

On 14 Apr 2020, at 10:16, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> I hope you had a nice Easter.

yes, thank you. :)

> I skimmed through it.. it looks a bit overkill, I try to intall 
> GNUstep
> the minimum to each system, so I try not to install new compilers etc 
> etc.
> However, it confirms all steps I am doing.
> I would mark several steps "optional" (new compilers...)

Well, not really. You will need at least clang version 8, to make the 
build process succeed. If your system (package manager) provides it 
(FreeBSD does, I think) you can just use it, of course.

> I think I found a solution now for libobjc2 on FreeBSD 11, I mentioned
> it in the other thread (edit linker flags)

Yes, interesting to know that worked for you.

> To the guide I would however add
>
> check out of liobjc2 needs:
>  git submodule update --init --force --remote
>
> to get some submodules.

Yes, we know. We added that to the newer scripts but did not yet update 
the guide. See 
https://github.com/plaurent/gnustep-build/blob/master/ubuntu-19.10-clang-9.0-runtime-2.0/GNUstep-buildon-ubuntu1910.sh 
f.e.

Best
Johannes