Re: base configure / HURD

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2 Nov 2011, at 23:35, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi
>>   
>>> what could that be? I'm using gcc 4.6.1
>>>     
>> That's the problem.  The ObjectiveC2/runtime.h is the compatibility layer 
>> for using the modern Objective-C APIs on the old GCC runtime.  The GCC 4.6 
>> runtime includes its own versions of these and doesn't export the old 
>> definitions.  Delete the installed ObjectiveC2 framework, and it should all 
>> work.
>>   
> You were perfectly right, I upgraded the compiler, but had some cruft around. 
> I removed everything and installed make & base from scratch and it went along 
> smooth.
> 
> Now, during gui compile, I get a segfault:
> 
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `internal-service-compile'.
> (echo "{"; echo '  NOTE = "Automatically generated, do not edit!";'; \
>          echo "  NSExecutable = \"GSspell\";"; \
>          if [ -r "GSspellInfo.plist" ]; then \
>            cat GSspellInfo.plist; \
>          fi; \
>          echo "}") >GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist ;\
>        if ././obj/make_services --test 
> GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist; then : ; else rm -f 
> GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist; false; \
>        fi
> Segmentation fault
> make[3]: *** [GSspell.service/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist] Error 1
> 
> The object tool is the fault:
> address@hidden:~/gnustep-cvs/devmodules/core/gui$ Tools/obj/make_services
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Starting program: 
> /home/multix/gnustep-cvs/devmodules/core/gui/Tools/obj/make_services
> [New Thread 12392.5]
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x014d5b86 in sel_register_name () from /usr/lib/i386-gnu/libobjc.so.3
> 
> Extremely useful, isn't it?

Runtime level errors are generally too low level to be easily diagnosed, but 
most likely you have some mess like two different runtimes or two different 
gnustep-base libraries linked somehow (or just some bug/failure when building 
base).