Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Sergio Brandano <sb dcs qmw ac uk>]

> 1. The compiler.

>>    When using gcc-2.7.2.3 (that is the one recommended by Linus for
>>    the kernel), GNOME fails with gnome-objc-1.0.2. Spud suggested
>>    to install egcsobjc, that is to use egcs instead of gcc.
>
>My understanding is that this Linus recommendation is obsolete.  The 2.0
>series of the Linux kernel inadvertantly depended on a BUG in gcc-2.7.2.3,
>so it wouldn't compile reliably on gcc-2.8.x or egcs.  For the 2.1, 2.2
>(and presumably the 2.3) series, the recommendation for kernel compiling
>is gcc-2.8.1, but many people are using egcs or pgcc for it.

 I would like to use gcc-2.8.1, but ...
 I quote from /usr/linux/Documentation/Changes of kernel 2.2.5:

>Gnu C
>=====
>
>   You need at least GCC 2.7.2 to compile the kernel.  If you're
>upgrading from an earlier release, you might as well get GCC 2.7.2.3,
>the latest stable public release.  If you already have GCC 2.7.2 on
>your system, you don't have to upgrade just so the kernel will work
>(though feel free to upgrade if you want the gcc bug fixes).
>
>   Note that the latest compilers (egcs, pgcc, gcc 2.8) may do Bad
>Things while compiling your kernel, particularly if absurd
>optimizations (like -O9) are used.  Caveat emptor.  Currently, the only
>C compiler available in a binary distribution is egcs.  Version 1.0.3
>seems okay; if you have to have a binary, you may be successful using
>that.  In general, however, gcc-2.7.2.3 is known to be stable, while
>egcs and others have not been as thoroughly tested yet.

> 2. The libraries.

>GNOME should work fine on libc5, but don't expect thread-safety or
>multithreading with it.  Upgrading libc is generally considered a very
>difficult task, don't bother upgrading it just for GNOME, since GNOME
>should work with what you've got.

 I am using libc5.

> 3. GNU gettext.
 
> I want gettext.
>> You NEED gettext.  Gettext version 0.10.35, to be precise:
>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext-0.10.35.tar.gz

 I have exactly that gettext installed.
 Still I get the following:

...
>lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -ldb -lglib -ldl
>/sw/gnome/lib/libgnomeui.so: undefined reference to `dgettext'
>/sw/gnome/lib/libgnomeui.so: undefined reference to `gettext'
>/sw/gnome/lib/libgnome.so: undefined reference to `bindtextdomain'
>make[2]: *** [cddbslave] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/sw/src/gnome/gnome-media-1.0.1/cddbslave'
>make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/sw/src/gnome/gnome-media-1.0.1'
>make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

 Sergio