Re: [patch #4206] libobjc: Extend protocol hack to all gcc versions

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-07-27 13:48:48 +0100 Jeremy Bettis <jeremy@deadbeef.com> wrote:

> Why is this my problem.
>
> Look at 
> http://wwwmain.gnustep.org/resources/downloads.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fftpmain.gnustep.org%2Fpub%2Fgnustep%2F
> Notice how it has listed libobjc as prereq on windows.
> See the link to 
> http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/gnustep-objc-1.3.0.tar.gz
> Notice how that is NOT GCC's libobjc.
> See my patch to that code.
>
> I don't really care what libobjc GCC has because I have to use gnustep's.
>
> Feel free to fix any of the steps that got us to this point, but don't tell 
> me that I am not using the right software when I followed the published 
> instructions.

Stay calm ...

Andrew is familiar with gcc, but not windows, you are familiar with building 
GNUstep on windows, and neither of you know each others background ... you 
just have two different viewpoints and I'm sure there is no intention on 
either part to be awkward.

As far as I know (and I could be wrong on this) ... the libobjc provided in 
the GNUstep CVS is a version which has been hacked to build nicely on 
windows export the symbols windows needs in the way it needs them etc (I 
don't know the details), but the mainline libobjc in the gcc project lacks 
these modifications.  On the other hand, the gcc version has various 
bugfixes which are not in the version on gnustep cvs.

If this is not the case ... and the main gcc version of the library is fine 
on windows, then the instructions we have for running gnustep on windows are 
out of date ... and it would be good to know that so we can change them.

If it is the case, the pair of you could do everyone a favour by finding out 
what needs to be done to the main gcc version of the library to make it 
usable with gnustep under windows, and get the changes into the main version 
... so we can remove the library from gnustep cvs.

I'm hoping to see something productive come of this.



> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
> To: "Jeremy Bettis" <jeremy@deadbeef.com>
> Cc: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>; <bug-gnustep@gnu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [patch #4206] libobjc: Extend protocol hack to all gcc versions
>
>
> > > Gcc has a libobjc also, but the code I patched was from gnustep's CVS
> > > server, not gcc's.
> > >
> > > Let's take one step at a time.
> >
> > The GNUstep's libobjc really should be removed now as it does not contain
> > all the fixes which are in the GCC's CVS.  And the libobjc in GCC is 
> > upstream
> > so the bug should be submitted there first.  This might turn out to be a
> > front-end bug if you submit a bug to GCC's bug database.
> >
> > -- Pinski