gcc and runtime selection at link time

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Hi,


In the SOGo project, our Debian maintainer has produced a patch that 
forces the linking of libraries to libobjc.so. Now, our OpenBSD 
complains because those are modifications to the makefiles that he must 
work around because his objc runtime is named libobjc2.so
As far as I understand, executables, bundles and other forms of objects 
built from gnustep-make are linked to the right runtime.

Now, my questions are:
1- shouldn't it be the role of gcc to choose the right runtime, the same 
way the c backend link executables to the right libc?

2- why would the library target of gnustep-make not link against 
libobjc, if source files are objective-c files?

Maybe this has been discussed and changed before, but I would like to 
see a modern opinion on the matter.
Thanks for your input!

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