Building GNUstep on Solaris 10 (x86)

[Laszlo Kiss]

Hello All,

I'm building the GNUstep environment on Solaris 10 (3/05) x86. I had good
success so far, but when the base tools are being built the link step fails
with the following message:

Making all for tool autogsdoc...
 Linking tool autogsdoc ...
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
objc_get_class                      ./shared_obj/autogsdoc.o  (symbol belongs
   to implicit
      dependency /opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2/libobjc.so.1)
objc_msg_lookup_super               ./shared_obj/AGSParser.o  (symbol belongs
   to implicit
      dependency /opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2/libobjc.so.1)
objc_msg_lookup                     ./shared_obj/autogsdoc.o  (symbol belongs
   to implicit
      dependency /opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2/libobjc.so.1)
__objc_exec_class                   ./shared_obj/autogsdoc.o  (symbol belongs
   to implicit
      dependency /opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2/libobjc.so.1)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to shared_obj/autogsdoc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [shared_obj/autogsdoc] Error 1
make[1]: *** [autogsdoc.all.tool.variables] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/common/src/GNUstep/gnustep-base-1.11.0/Tools'
make: *** [internal-all] Error 2

I'm using binutils-2.14 and gcc-3.4.2 which I built using the gcc-3.4.2 that
is distributed on the Solaris Companion CD. I had to re-build gcc because the
default distribution does not have Objective-C enabled.

Here is the version string returned by my compiler:

maximus# gcc -v
Reading specs from /opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.2/configure --prefix=/opt/common
--with-local-prefix=/opt/common/include --enable-threads
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-languages=c,c++,objc
--enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats --disable-nls --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld
--with-gnu-as --with-as=/opt/common/bin/gnuas --enable-shared --disable-libgcj
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.2

The link library search list is:

maximus$ crle

Configuration file [version 4]: /var/ld/ld.config  
  Default Library Path (ELF):   
    /lib:/usr/lib:/opt/common/lib:/opt/common/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.10/3.4.2
  Trusted Directories (ELF):    /lib/secure:/usr/lib/secure


Note also that I can build executables that use the Foundation with the
following gcc invocation:

gcc -I /opt/common/GNUstep/System/Library/Headers Stepping.m -o Stepping
   -L /opt/common/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries -lgnustep-base -lobjc

To get the gnustep-base.so in the right place I simply commented out the code
that built the tools and did a 'make install'. However, it would be nice if I
could build the entire development system. This I think requires a mod to the
build system (I'm guessing) and this is why I'm posting for help here.

Thanks for any replies.


Laszlo