Re: problems building - faiiling due to autogsdoc

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 09:22  pm, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> I don't know why Richard is using NSProcessInfo to get the arguments in
> main() since he could easily use argc and argv...

Convenience ... argv doesn't contains NSString values.
It's a good job too ... it quickly shows up this particular bug ...
I don't want bugs to linger in the software ... one should fix bugs,
not hack in workarounds.

> However, I did have the same problems on FreeBSD.
> I also tried configuring -base with --enable-pass-arguments (see
> below) which resulted in basically every application to core dump
> upon startup....
>
> Try to configure -base with '--disable-procfs --disable-openssl'
> That's how I got it to work on FreeBSD.

Please don't do that ... instead, track down the cause of the problem
and supply a fix, so other people don't have the problem in future.

However, if --disable-procfs  gets rid of the symptom. it's probably
a good idea to look at what information the operating system is
providing to the procfs code in NSProcessInfo.

1. there could be a bug in GNUsteps handling of procfs, which could be 
fixed.
2. there could be a bug in BSDs procfs, for which we could get autoconf 
to
enable a workaround (or disable procfs support if it is horribly 
broken).