installing 1.4.1 on SuSE Linux 6.1 (help re objc?)

[Catherine Dibble]

hi Folks,

Help?  Has anyone succeeded in making Swarm 1.4.1 happy on
SuSE 6.1?  In particular, the egcs 1.1.2 <?>  Objective C seems to be
handled completely differently and Swarm complains that it
can't find Objective C libraries or link an Objective C program.
Since there did not appear to be any objc libs or headers in egcs
as installed, I installed the objc.rpm -- which may or may not be
meant to work happily with egcs.  

In particular, this release creates:
/usr/lib/libobjects
/usr/include/objc/...
                         /objects
                          /Foundation
all three of which objc, objects, and Foundation are directories
within /usr/include that include header files it claims are 
needed for the libobjects library.

This is all weird looking stuff compared to my trusty RedHat 5.2.
Has anyone fought this battle yet, or have wise words of advice?

(This is a new laptop with a non-standard external CD-ROM, so
I can only install SuSE;  RH5.2 hangs even on the HD install <sigh>.
Fwiw, my RedHat 5.2 links gcc as egcs 2.91.60 (egcs-1.1.1), and 
objc has never been a problem.  RH5.2 also has none of libobjects etc.

Here's what I've done to make it as happy as possible so far:
>From the standard development installation of SuSE 6.1:

(1)  check that gcc on SuSE is egcs-2.91.66 (egcs 1.1.2 release)
If there is a way for them to install egcs without Objective C,
I don't know how to detect that after the fact.

(2)  from the SuSE CD-ROM 1, in suse/contents, find links to
RPMs to install:  automake, autoconf (=> aclocal) , autoheader, and objc

(2)  find BLT 2.4 and png already fine in:   /usr/X11R6
(so you   ./configure --with-bltlib=/usr/X11R6 --with-pnglib=/usr/X11R6 )

(3)  install libffi into /usr/local

I dearly hope I'm not the first one crazy enough to try this... 
any help would be most welcome, thanks!  8)

Catherine
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