Re: compiling libobjc-2.0 and gnustep on Ubuntu 14.04

[David Chisnall]

On 30 May 2015, at 16:51, allynm <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For several days now I have been struggling to compile and install
> libobjc2-1.7 and the most recent GNUstep core libraries on my Ubuntu 14.04
> ("Trusty") machine. This is because there are no Ubuntu packages of libobjc2
> for Trusty, although they exist for 12.04 ("Precise") as far as I can tell.
> 
>> From the research I have done I have found several bash scripts that are
> supposed to accomplish this.  I have tried to follow them, but without
> success.  The problem comes down to cmake, which is the preferred method of
> compiling and linking libobjc2 (no doubt most of you know this).  
> 
> When I run cmake I get a number of errors involving inability to find load
> files, among them /usr/share/llvm-3.5/cmake/LLVMExports.cmake.
> 
> ...and several others including AddLLVM.

This is a known bug (which is fixed in git and will be in the next release, 
which I hope to do very soon).  The easiest thing to do is simply disable the 
LLVM optimisations.  Add -DLLVM_OPTS=false to your cmake command line and it 
should work.

David




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