Re: Objective C on Mac OS X

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:49:56AM +0200, Martin Wagner wrote:
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> all,
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> i am currently porting some autotoolized c++ code to mac os x, it all works 
> fine. however, when i try to integrate some objective c code, i get a bunch 
> of errors i don't understand.
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> i did set OBJC=gcc, OBJCFLAGS='-O2 -g' and OBJCLDFLAGS='-lobjc' in my 
> configure.ac. 
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> when i now try to call automake, it complains:
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> /sw//share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepOBJC does not appear in 
> AM_CONDITIONAL

Try the following in your configure.ac.

_AM_DEPENDENCIES([OBJC])

As the name says this is an internal function you should not use, but
(i) as long as neither Autoconf nor Automake offer an A[CM]_PROG_OBJC
check you'll have to call it yourself (ii) Automake's support for
Objective C isn't documented either.