Why does GNUstep Make add -libobjc to tools / apps?

[David Chisnall]

Is there a sensible reason why GNUstep Make adds -lobjc to the end of  
the linker flags for tools and apps (which already link against -base,  
which links against libobjc)?  In a number of projects I'm  
experiencing problems with this because the GNUmakefile specifies -L/ 
usr/lib as a linker flag and so these apps are linking against the  
libobjc found there, overriding the  one that GNUstep linked against,  
and then causing link failures because the system libobjc is missing  
some symbols...

Omitting -lobjc would fix this, but GNUstep Make doesn't seem to  
provide an easy way of doing that (or, in fact, anything, but that's a  
different complaint).

David

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