Re: Problems with gcc when trying to build base on MacOS-X

[Bill Northcott]

On 17 Jan 2004, at 18:23, Richard Frith-Macdonald  wrote:
> > > This implies that there is a problem with the newly built compiler
> > > ... it can't compile libgcc etc.
> > > Anyone know about this problem and how to fix it?
> >
> > Yes by not using 3.2.2, there is bug in every GCC up till 3.3.2 for
> > Darwin which was not
> > noticed until Apple changed their asm to be more correct and error out
> > here.
>
> Thanks ... I tried 3.3.2 and it builds fine ...I guess the instructions
> at http://www.gnustep.org/information/machines_1.html#SEC2 need to be
> updated.
AFAIK, you should be able to build GNUstep with the current Apple 
compiler, but you may have trouble at execution time with nested method 
calls.  If you apply Andrew Pinski's patch for BUG 11754 ( 
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11754) to Apple sources for 
Panther/Darwin7.2 and use that compiler, it should even build code that 
works.  (It certainly builds working Swarm libraries)

If you would like a binary installer package for the patched compiler 
drop me an email.

It is possible that more recent versions of the CVS code for the Apple 
compiler will also work.  However, I have not had an attempt to test 
this and because the core ObjC parser code has been rewritten the patch 
mentioned above is not applicable.

Bill Northcott