Re: GNUstep on OpenBSD..

[Wolfgang Lux]

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:00:28 am Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > Now I could go and ask the old maintainer about the intention of the
> > > patch, and if he is fine with it, to actually remove it. On the  
> > > other
> > > side I wonder, whether SystemPreferences would work on Windows,  
> > > because
> > > BUNDLE_OBJ_EXT is set to .dll. I guess, plmerge on Windows would  
> > > also
> > > cause the same problem like I have seen here.
> > > Otherwise, it probably would be save to remove all the  
> > > "NSExecutable ="
> > > lines from the *Info.plist files that come with SystemPreferences,  
> > > since
> > > the "NSExecutable =" line is created correctly when running make,  
> > > and
> > > then the rest of it is merged.
> >
> > Don't ask how, but the current SVN trunk compiles and works on  
> > Windows!
> ok, now I'm curious, could you please send me the output of make  
> messages=yes
> when it makes one of the modules, like I did, starting from  "Making  
> all for
> bundle Defaults...". And also what ends up in the resulting
> DefaultsInfo.plist, the NSExecutable with or without the .dll.
>
> Don't know whether this will help me to understand what's going on  
> there, but
> who knows ;)

Don't know whether this helps you, but the code happens to work under  
Windows because NSBundle contains conditional code that adds the .dll  
extension if it is not present (have a look at function  
bundle_object_name). Now you could do the same with .so for OpenBSD,  
but I doubt that this is a good idea.

Wolfgang