Re: Need MacOS X installation help

[Adrian Robert]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 2005-08-03 15:51:50 +0100 Yves de Champlain <yves@gnu- 
> darwin.org> wrote:
>
>
> > > Eek! I'd rather not install yet another version of gcc... I have   
> > > three now (default apple, 3.3.5 and 3.3.6), and some parts of  
> > > 3.4  as well (libffi I think).
> > > I've been following the instructions exactly - does no-one know  
> > > why  it's not working with this setup? The documentation said it  
> > > was  supported.
> > > Failing that... is it possible for anyone to send me the pre-  
> > > compiled files? Or will that not work?
> > I can understand that, but you may still find some useful flags  
> > and  patches in there
> > what I did the last time is that I used the libobjc 1.3 and I   
> > installed it in GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries (which is the   
> > default I think)
> > but you will still have to watch each build and patch Makefiles  
> > for  missing -L and -l flags
> > I have made some binaries in the GNU-Darwin distribution,
> > http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/gnu-darwin/
> > but there is a lot of stuff in there (including another gcc -   
> > required :-)
> > You can always get the iso and install stuff you need by hand but   
> > that's a rather tedious process.
>
> For what it's worth, I got the latest CVS versions of gnustep make  
> and base packages working on tiger a couple of days ago using gcc-4.1
> This compiler version uses a different name for the gnu objc  
> runtime (libobjc-gnu), making it easy for the apple and gnu  
> runtimes to coexist on the same machine.

Note also, someone failed with the same error you had using "gcc4  
from Darwin ports":

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2005-07/msg00002.html

And again on Panther:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnustep/2005-06/msg00135.html

No solution found in either case, though there are periodic success  
reports as well.  I suspect there must be some condition that hasn't  
been identified and put in the instructions that affects finding the  
objc library during linking.  Maybe this condition depends on OS X  
and compiler versions, maybe not..