Re: OpenBSD: Services problems

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> So in fact (assuming I'm understanding this correctly) this change is really 
> introducing a minor bug in order to work around a runtime failure ... and we 
> should really be figuring out what the runtime is doing wrong and how to fix 
> it, rather than hacking a workaround into base.
>
> What's special about OpneBSD and FreeBSD?  Are they using a particularly old 
> version of the GNU runtime?
> Maybe the correct solution is to revert the code change I just made, and have 
> those systems use a more recent GNU runtime, or the GNUstep traditional 
> runtime, or the new GNUstep objc2 runtime.
No, nothing special as far as I know and I wouldn't say "particularly 
old" runtime either. What would you consider old?

The OpenBSD/sparc32 box runs old gcc 2.95, but has our libobjc 1.6 installed
The OpenBSD/x86 runs the gcc 4.2.1 runtime
The FreeBSD/x86 runs gcc 4.2.1

I can successfully run on Linux/ppc with debian... I can't check what 
gcc it runs, becase booting just broke.

I don't see anything common in the platform eithers: little/big endian, 
even x86 happens to break.

Riccardo



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