Re: GNUstep + libobjc2 and powerpc ( was "libobjc2 on powerpc")

[Josh Freeman]

On Mar 22, 2018, at 7:58 AM, bertrand wrote:

> > > > configure: error: The Objective-C compiler does not work or is  
> > > > not installed properly.
> >
> > The line in the config file that's important is the error  
> > immediately before it tests for a working objc:
> >
> > ./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/ 
> > libdispatch.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0fc83f40 for symbol  
> > `gettimeofday' out of range
> >
> > So the problem is with libdispatch.  I'm not the sort of linker/ 
> > compiler guru who can tell you why there's a relocation issue or  
> > what to do about it though.  Possibly there are compiler flags  
> > (that you could put in CFLAGS before configuring) to deal with it,  
> > or possibly it's something wrong with the way libdispath itself was  
> > built.
> Josh had it !

Thanks, but that wasn't me - Richard & Wolfgang found the libdispatch  
issue.