Re: gnustep status and new ports (zaurus?

[Fred Kiefer]

chuckr@speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
> I am considering that GNUstep might be a good platform for a
> programmer, especially one running a smallish environment like the
> SL-C3000, with it's 4G hard disk and native (not cross) compiling
> atmosphere.
> 
> Beyond trying to determine if  the project is still active, when I
> began compiling it on the Zaurus, it failed in ffcall.  It appears to
> have an embryonic "arm" port ... which is even less useful than (say)
> giving Intel as a CPU instead of "Pentium-4" or something in that
> vein.  I have a config.sub that works fine for
> "zaurus-unknown-OpenBSD3.7" (it compiles gnome fine).  I would like
> to try porting ffcall or the zaurus SL-C3000, but to do this, I need
> to have some notion what, precisely, ffcall is really doing.  Any
> test progs, say something that works today on a stable platform like
> Intel with either FreeBSD or Linux would really be of great help.
> 

Hi chuckr,

great to see somebody interested in GNUstep on ARM. The ffcall problem
you stumpled upon is not GNUstep specific, but there is already a bug
report on it in the GNUstep savannah page: #9468 and this even includes
a patch. I did not try this myself, but it is surely worth a look
(http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9468). Also not
sure if ffcall 1.10 already includes this patch.

Cheers
Fred