Re: GNUstep build problem

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

> > > ow can I make gcc use this option for everything it does?
> >
> >
> > -fPIC should be used on almost every target that GNUstep Makefiles 
> > support. You can check under gnustep-make/target.make
> >
> > Did you see it when you typed "make messages=yes" ?  I checked and it 
> > does look set for Solaris targets.
>
> It is true, so far we have only seen the link command, not the one used
> for compilation. To see the results of configure on make and base would
> also help to diagnose the issue.
>
> I think that Andreas problem comes from one of the other libraries he 
> is
> linking in not being properly compiled. He should try to find out which
> one. The obvious first candidates are ffcall and freetype, but it might
> as well be one of the other libraries of the system (libobjc springs to
> mind).

I have no luck with this Solaris/gcc/GNUstep combination. I git GNustep 
compiled now and Affiche, Terminal and TextEdit, but all apps die with 
a core dump at startup. I therefore tried to build gdb 6.8 and this 
fails with

        tar xvf gdb-6.8.tar
        cd gdb-6.8
        ./configure
        make

...
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/gdb-6.8/gdb'
gcc -c -g -O2   -I. -I.././gdb -I.././gdb/config 
-DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\"" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-I.././gdb/../include/opcode -I.././gdb/../readline/.. -I../bfd 
-I.././gdb/../bfd -I.././gdb/../include -I../libdecnumber 
-I.././gdb/../libdecnumber -I./../intl  -DMI_OUT=1 -DTUI=1 
-I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement 
-Wpointer-arith -Wformat-nonliteral -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused 
-Wno-switch -Wno-char-subscripts -Werror remote.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
remote.c: In function 'extended_remote_attach_1':
remote.c:2859: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but 
argument 3 has type 'pid_t'
make[2]: *** [remote.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/gdb-6.8/gdb'
make[1]: *** [install-gdb] Error 2

Uaghh!!! Had anyone moreluck with setting up a recent Solaris with 
recent gcc and GNUstep? If so, I would pretty much appreciate 
installation notes. I have no luck at all! :-(

Thanks a lot,

 Andreas