Re: GNUStep build problems

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

  > Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org> writes:
  > 
  > > we are trying to add GNUstep support for Emacs in Gentoo Linux.
  > > Unfortunately Emacs build fails from HEAD during bootstrapping, maybe
  > > you can have a look at it, a log of the build process is attached.
  > 
  > This has been reported:
  > 
  > http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620
  > 
  > Unfortunately, no one seems to have found the time to work on this yet.
  > Yavor Doganov's observation in that bug report is probably key:
  > 
  > >> Notice how unlike the usual bootstrap procedure, it loads a
  > >> gazillion of files when byte-compiling every single .el file:
  > 
  > > Also there has been a linker problem as in Gentoo the GNUstep libraries
  > > are not in FHS locations but in the ones recommended by GNUstep.  A
  > > patch for that is attached.
  > 
  > Applied, thanks.

I think this patch causes:  bug#760: Linker issues with the GNUstep build