Re: plmerge core dumps...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 13 Feb 2020, at 09:44, Andreas Fink <afink@list.fink.org> wrote:
> 
> This is not a problem of gnustep but of objectiveC.
> Yes its a pain that the standard linker doesnt work. But it is what it is. 
> until someone fixes the standard linker we can't do much.

I'm not sure where the responsibility lies (maybe nobody knows and that's why 
it exists):
Is it a bug in the linker?
Is it a bug in clang for not invoking the linker correctly?
Is it a bug in gnustep-make for not passing some extra flag to clang to tell it 
how to invoke the linker correctly?

> This is mainly given by the fact that modern ObjC support in gcc is still 
> missing. clang does much better here but there where still some bugs in clang 
> before version 8 which can get you into trouble.
> 
> So golden rule is clang >= 8.0 and linker = ld.gold and it will work.

Yes, that works for me to build base/gui and quite a lot of other stuff, but 
not all my code by any means:  I find there are other libraries/tools that fail 
to link using ld.gold
Until I can figure out what to do about that, I can't migrate the codebase 
where I work to use the latest runtime :-(