Re: Status of gnustep for gcc-4.6

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 16 Mar 2011, at 08:41, Nicola Pero wrote:
> 
>> If I don't build GS with http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/trunk
>> and use /usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/lib/libobjc_gc.so.3  I'll get a warning
>> 
>> NSLog(@"WARNING your program is becoming multi-threaded, but you are
>> using an ObjectiveC runtime library which does not have a thread-safe
>> implementation of the +initialize method.  This means that any classes
>> not already used may be incorrectly initialised, potentially causing
>> strange behaviors and crashes.  Please build/run GNUstep-base with a
>> runtime which supports the +initialize method.");
> 
> Sure.  That is a known problem - I guess we'll try to get the runtime fix
> into 4.6.1.  Having said that, that bug has always existed in the runtime
> and most people never noticed it.  If you encounter it, you can work
> around it by manually calling a method of the relevant classes at the
> beginning of your program.

I just updated base to make that message more informative, and also allow you 
to set a user default to turn it off ... after all, if you are running an 
application where the bug doesn't actually cause any trouble, there's no point 
seeing the warning.