Re: Default ObjC compiler for hamm?
Scott Ellis writes:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Matthias Klose wrote:
>
> > Currently hamm has no working compiler for Objective-C, which can
> > compile the GNUstep packages. GNUstep requires gcc-2.8 or egcs. On
> > other platforms I was able to compile GNUstep with egcs-1.0.2, not so
> > on a hamm system (with egcs (1.0.2-0.3)).
> >
> > The gstep-*-0.5 packages are made with gcc-2.8.1, which comes from
> > project/experimental. Unfortunately the gcc-2.8 package is not part of
> > hamm and is not so nice to leave gcc-2.7 installed. Well, my wish for
> > ObjC development with hamm is to have the default compiler and a
> > working ObjC compiler together. Would it be ok to build a gcc-objc
> > package, which is basically gcc-2.8 without c++, which could be
> > installed together with gcc-2.7 and conflicts with gcc-2.8?
>
> Does the egcc package not have the backend you need?
The egcc package (made from egcs (1.0.2-0.3)) has a ObjC backend,
which isn't suitable for gstep-*; every GNUstep program compiled with
egcc segfaults before main in the global constructors.
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