Re: [SOLVED] Re: Further problems trying to build GNUstep with blocks/properties support

[Thomas Davie]

On 22 Jun 2010, at 11:42, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> 
> On 22 Jun 2010, at 11:28, Thomas Davie wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 22 Jun 2010, at 11:19, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> 
>> There's a slight problem with this approach – previously, it was possible to 
>> compile gnustep-base with gcc, and expect blocks code to work if your binary 
>> was compiled with clang, this is no longer the case, as blocks_runtime.h 
>> will never be included.  This kinda loops back on my original issue that 
>> clang bails/hangs trying to compile GSFormat.m.
> 
> I may be misunderstanding, but that seems OK to me:
> 1. you build base using gcc ... the blocks runtime header is not included at 
> this point, but that's OK since base doesn't use blocks.
> 2. you build your code with clang ... the blocks runtime header *is* included 
> ... your code is able to use blocks.

Never mind, I'm being dim, thanks for pointing it out.

> Incidentally, my copy of clang builds GSFormat.m without complaint/problem.

Yeh, David reported the same behaviour, I'm not certain what is going on on my 
system, neither that version, nor the current head terminates :/

Thanks

Tom Davie