Using the libobjc patch

[Graham Lee]

Hi all,

I use a Solaris 2.7 system (SPARC architecture), and as it's got gcc 
2.95.2 I need to apply the gnustep-objc patch in order to compile 
Objective-C programs.  I'm not root so I'm not allowed to just upgrade 
gcc :-(, but root has kindly offered that if I can build the GNUstep 
patch and demonstrate that it works, he'll apply it system-wide.

So far I've built gnustep-make 1.5.0, sourced 
~/GNUstep/[...]/GNUstep.sh, built gnustep-objc and installed it into my 
own ~/GNUstep hierarchy.  But now I need to be able to build and link an 
objc program using the new library, to prove its usefulness.  This is 
where I'm stuck.

I included the directory in which the new patch has been installed with 
the gcc switch -L[...]/sparc/solaris2.7 but ld still links against the 
libobjc.a in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which fails.  I've noticed that the 
original libobjc is a static object and the new libobjc.so* are shared 
objects; does this change how I should be linking them?

Thanks for your help,

Graham.
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Graham Lee, Wadham College, OX1 3PN