Re: gnustep on redhat 7.0

[David Relson]

Georg,

For the past few weeks, I've subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing 
list.  Over the past week, there has been a lot of comment about RedHat 7.0 
and gcc-2.96.  Apparently what RedHat has termed gcc-2.96 is a cvs snapshot 
of the compiler(s), not an official release of the compiler.  A number of 
issues make the new compiler unsuitable for kernel building, so RedHat 7.0 
also has an older version of the compiler (called kgcc) for kernel 
building.  I suggest you try installing the kgcc rpm, compile gnustep and 
let us know how it works out.

David

P.S. Kernel linux-2.2.18pre15 even includes a script (in scripts/kwhich) 
which is used to help determine if a suitable version of gcc is installed 
on a linux system.  If gcc272 or kgcc is available on a system, kernel 
builds will use that instead of (just plain) cc.


At 03:20 PM 10/4/00, Georg Huettenegger wrote:
> last weekend i tried to compile the current cvs version using a newly
> installed rh 7.0. configure worked quite fine (even using
> --with-library-combo=gnu-gnu-gnu-xdps taking the dps exentsion of xfree86
> 4.0.1).
>
> when i tried to compile gnustep it failed when trying to compile
> NSData.m. i would like to know if anybody already knows what the problem
> is (quite naturally people will be upgrading many boxes over the next
> weeks and could have the same problem). i am not sure if i remember
> correctly but i have heard something about a broken objc backend in newer
> gcc snapshots and rh 7.0 has a gcc-2.96 included (which means a snapshot
> tagged within the gcc cvs repository).
>
> it would be great if the problems with rh 7.0 could be resolved soon (or
> at least some workaround be provided).
>
> bye,
>  georg
>
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