Re: gnustep on FreeBSD and how to use the debugger

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi

Gregory Casamento wrote:
> I'm not sure that lldb works all that well with ObjC on non-darwin 
> operating systems at this point.  I've tried it and had some similar 
> problems.   Does FreeBSD still include the GCC toolchain at all as an 
> option or not? (I know they now use clang as their main compiler... 
> just wondering)

it still includes both gdb and gcc. You should install the one from ports.
GDB works form me quite fine, however GCC not, it broke a couple of 
months ago due to some C++ library issues David C. found out, I opened a 
bug report, but so far no progress was made.
gcc 5, 6 and experimental 7 are provided, however the status for me is 
(as of 2 days ago updated packages)

gcc5: everything compiles fine, most application run, but some may crash 
and the crash shows C++ library issues. Specifically for me only 
GWorkspace crashes. I have not tried yet compiling without ICU though.

gcc6: the Obj-C compiler is so bad that it segfaults during configure 
tests. If continued, it will fail with an ICE during the first files of base

gcc7: just a little bit better, but it still ICE and segfaults during 
compilation of base

gcc 6 & 7 Obj-C compilers are however fine on other platforms I do 
compile whole GNUstep on Debian with 7.2 and it compiles and runs fine. 
So it is a platform issue. I opened a bug report to FreeBSD; but no news 
yet.

Riccardo