Re: [swarm-hackers] Old autoconf build process is broken in current trunk

[Scott Christley]

On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Bill Northcott wrote:

> Does the openstep option alter the runtime or just the GUI?

It should just alter the GUI, on Linux the openstep option uses  
gnustep and that uses the GNU objc runtime.


> It seems to me that the runtime should be chosen automagically onthe  
> basis of the host.

Yeah, except I didn't want to trump your Mac work, which as I  
understand uses the GNU runtime right now.


> Does the current code always use the host/gcc runtime. Can we ditch  
> the old Swarm modified runtime?

Actually tcl/tk on Linux uses the Swarm modified runtime.  The reason  
for this is to access the "mframe" stuff.  This is needed for openstep  
because it has its own mframe code.

Scott