Re: building a debug version of GNUstep-base on Darwin

[Adam Fedor]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> lately I built a debug version of GNUstep base (make debug=yes) on Darwin. 
> However, I wanted to use of a debugging version of libobjc to link against 
> for that purpose. To achive that goal I had to replace every occurance of 
> "-lobjc" in core/ with "-lobjc_debug" to make that work, since I wasn't 
> able to figure out at which stage of the building process the use of 
> "-lobjc" is determined.

Just a note. When you do make debug=yes, GNUstep will automatically try 
to link with libraries that have a _d ending. Perhaps it might be simple 
enought to rename the library from libobjc_debug to libobjc_d? I guess 
it's possible we could change the make package to look for _debug also...


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