Re: libobjc2 / gnustep-base build troubles on Debian9

[David Chisnall]

On 30/01/2019 09:15, Andreas Fink wrote:
> Hello David & all
>
> Today I tried to build libobjc2 exactly the way you did as you seemed to 
> have no errors.
> So I installed Debian Testing (sid) on to an empty VM and got 
> clang-7.0.1 with it.

This is the clang bug that I reported (and fixed in trunk) a couple of 
weeks ago.  Clang generates files that don't link if you have an 
Objective-C program or library containin no classes.  This, 
unfortunately, causes most of the configure tests to fail.

The FreeBSD llvm7 package has a back-port of the fix, if vourite 
operating system's package does not then I suggest you ask them to 
incorporate it.

David