Re: 1.6 build error

[Adam Fedor]

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i was trying to build base-1.6 on my NetBSD/68k box.
> I already had an older gnustep version on it, which hsalf-worked (problems
> sometimes with backgorunder in GWorkspace and such) and I zwanted to try the
> newer version to see if it improved.
>
> I did not remove the old version. I first installed gnu-step make (which
> went to the same location as the old one)
>
> then I begun gnustep-base.
>
> After a long compile run I got the following (after several screenful of
> warnings about casts and such)
>
>
> [...]
> ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol
> `__objc_class_name_NSAutoreleasePool' are not defined
> ../Source/shared_obj/m68k/netbsdelf1.6/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-base.so:
> undefined reference to `__objc_msg_forward'
> gmake[2]: *** [shared_obj/m68k/netbsdelf1.6/gnu-gnu-gnu/autogsdoc] Error 1
> gmake[1]: *** [autogsdoc.all.tool.variables] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/multix/gnustep-base-1.6.0/Tools'
> gmake: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> peregrin: {25}
>
> what could be the problem?

objc_msg_forward is in the libobjc library. I'm assuming that you are 
not using gcc 3.X, so you should have installed this (gnustep-objc). 
Somehow gnustep-base configure found it but later during linking it 
instead found the original libobjc with gcc. It's hard to say why this 
happened. If all else fails, I'd completly remove the old installed 
GNUstep and start over.