Re: can't build gnustep-base on cygwin

[Adam Fedor]

On Oct 2, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Paul Forgey wrote:

> Running cygwin 1.5.11-1 and trying to build gnustep-base 1.10.0, I'm 
> running into the following build error.  It's failing because there is 
> no occurance of "_class_name_" in the resulting list.  What exactly is 
> the build process attempting to do?   I see _class_name_ in the nm 
> output, but not if I filter it with the first grep statement.  I do, 
> however, see quite a few symbols starting with ___objc_class_name_ 
> with a 'U' instead.  Does this mean for some reason the definitions 
> are never actually being built?
>
> cat win32-def.top > libgnustep-base.def
> nm [long list of objects] | grep '^........ [T] _' | sed 's/[^_]*_//' 
> > _tmp.def

Would it work if you used 'R' instead of 'T' in the grep statement? 
Different versions of mingw/cyginw seems to work differently in this 
respect, so it's hard to see how to solve that problem.