Re: Core release, Wed

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-07-18 15:25:36 +0100 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm mostly satisfied with the libraries now, which is to say, I don't 
> really 
> have any time to make any significant changes. So I'll plan on freezing the 
> release this Wednesday. Unless there are any objections.

Well ...I have nothing very concrete but ... I'm dubious about the recent 
make packagechange to when the objc library is linked into things (the one 
which seems to have caused problems on bsd).

The reason I'm worried is that, on a couple of production machines I wanted 
to make local bugfix updates to part of my software, and (for no very good 
reason ... I just like to keep things up to date) I updated the make package 
on these machines before recompiling my patched code.  Upon relinking I got 
a load of errors about undefined symbols from the runtime library ... but 
upon reverting to the earlier make package I was able to build without 
problems.

I haven't investigated in any depth ... partly lack of time, partly because 
I don't want to tinker too much with live production systems running 
customer-facing services.  The linkage problems may well be something wrong 
in my makefiles which the make system was masking and is not masking any 
more, but it may be the case that the make package really should link every 
tool/app with -lobjc evn though it has already linked the base library with 
it, I'm just not sure - I find the rules about dynamic libraries confusing.