GNUstep on Gentoo: how many of us are there?

headache · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 226

Ok, I tried to add the -m32 flag to my CFLAGS but that gave me just more headache :-D

From config.log:

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

headache -

sorry, should've posted, i was asking some other dev's last night about the possiblity of using that flag in these ebuilds, and the general answer i got went along the lines of "OH GOD NO!" ...

we're going to have to keep testing these, but I'm working on redoing libffi ebuilds "the right way" (got some more advice from devs)

I'm also discussing this on the GNUstep lists, and at the moment, the general answers start like "yeah.....here's the thing...."

i'll keep you posted.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

pjp -

thanks, but that would probably mean changing all the ebuilds ..
... oh, wait, if they already got the tar, or from your site, then they have the ebuilds, digests, extra files, etc; then if they download the src from anywhere, and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles, as long as the md5's match up, it should work ...

let me see if I can get together the base, and hopefully other, newest versions of the packages

otherwise, it's only a few more hours :-)

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headache · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 226

Lol!

I somehow knew that the -m32 flag was not a good idea, but I thought you had some better insight into it than me

Let me know when you have something you want me to try and I'll jump at it! :-D

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ruyn · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 34

Has anybody experiemented with the GNUStep implementation of the Webkit? I'm curious how stable and complete it is right now. The project website hasn't been updated for awhile.

I'm going to get back into GNUStep and wanted to play with the Webkit. I've played a little bit with the Cocoa implementation and have to say that embedding a browser couldn't be any easier.

This might also be my opportunity to figure out this ebuild business.

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

ruyn -

if you use these ebuilds in this post, I hope you have an x86 ... having some issues on 64 bit at the moment :-)

Also webkit itself is not very usable 'cause it lacks features, but it's under high development. The main people working on it are mostly waiting for Objective-C++ to make it's stable way into gcc-3.5 or so. Webcore, on the other hand, is a bit outdated, and a bit buggy, but it's there for testing/using.
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Lv · Retired Dev Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 352

fafhrd · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

Lv -

I'm working on that improved libffi ebuild

I wasn't noticing that by specifying objc in --enable-languages, gcc was disabling support for libffi! I think this has to do with gcc only turning in on for gcj support, or something like that. I'm about halfway done with it, I'd say. It's a little more complex that my "pull out the libffi source" style ebuild. Once that's done, I'd should be a quick copy to make one based off gcc-3.4.1 for amd64 machines.

Thanks for the offer to test it on amd64 ... i suddenly want a 64-bit laptop with all this 64 bit talk.
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fafhrd · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

NOTICE

My webserver's back up, so download's should work again.

... I did a network transplant last night in my apartment building.

NOTICE
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endymion · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Mons, Belgium

0n0w1c · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 273

fafhrd,

It may be a bit late now that your server is up, but I offer you the services of my server as a (24/7) mirror. I finally figured out how to get chroot sftp accounts configured.

endymion · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Mons, Belgium

Ok tried to merge the new packages but... Do I really need gcc-3.4 to compile libffi ? (seems not but as you can read under my name : noob)

fafhrd · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

endymion -

ack, no, you can change that, sorry

I'd recommend at least gcc-3.3.3 though

thanks for that bug report ;-)

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headache · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 226

Ok fafhrd... What do you want me to do now in regards to AMD64 testing?
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fafhrd · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

i've just finished putting together new and improved libffi ebuilds ... the original ones I had were "lazy", so to speak ... they should help the situation, but I'm not sure how much more

in regards to amd64, i wonder why out of the apps you tried only GNUMail exhibited problems ...

hrm, so at this point, I"m not exactly sure how to progress,but I'm going to roll another tarball by the end of the day, today (Sunday) and hope to get feedback from you and others

btw, since you're on amd64, have you upgraded to using gcc-3.4.1? If so, I"ll make sure I make a libffi based off 3.4.1 as well...
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headache · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 226

Yes, I'm using 3.4.1 now.

As to whether it was only GNUMail, no. It seems like all programs crashes when I try to use the preferences page and click on any of the buttons.
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endymion · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Mons, Belgium

0n0w1c · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 273

fafhrd,
By your lack of response to my offer, I will take as you are not currently interested. If change your mind just let me know. Thanks again for your efforts.

fafhrd · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject:

0n0w1c -

oh, sorry, i was a bit preoccupied today with this ebuild stuff and other personal things .. i definitely appreciate the offer ... after I finish some paperwork and get all this stuff to work, all the packages hosted on my server will likely end up on the gentoo mirrors ... this should take care of things quite well :-)

but definitely, much thanks

endymion -

yeah, i suggest adding the line "virtual/gnustep-back gnustep-back-xlib" to /etc/make.profile/virtuals (temporarily until things are in portage) 'cause xlib back end is pretty much guaranteed to work ... you can "emerge -pv gnustep-base/gnustep-back-art" for the art backend, which is somewhat prettier, but a littler newer, so it has some rough edges...xlib actually does support AA fonts as well ... I'll post the defaults line to run when I find that command again ... either one should work AOK for you, though
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cafard · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Eire

Hi all! Here's another one interested in GNUstep! Thanks for your work fafhrd.

But... the emerge fails pretty quickly: right after failing to build the doc:

fafhrd · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

cafard -

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into this error with doc.

Also, seriously, I'll be rolling another tar today -- I was working on a lot of different factors of this last night, and never got to finishing.
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fafhrd · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

here are the two new libffi ebuilds:
http://armando.xylite.com/gentoo/libffi-3.3.3.ebuild
http://armando.xylite.com/gentoo/libffi-3.4.1.ebuild

... 3.3.3 is keyword'd for ~x86, and 3.4.1 is keyworded for ~amd64 ... i'm confident the x86/3.3.3 version installs nicely and works, but I need confirmation of compilation success for the 2nd one on amd64 ... please have gcc-3.4.1 on amd64 (which I'm sure you do anyway ;-)

)

new tar of actual GNUstep stuff coming, now that this is done, but it'd be nice to know if compiles, and you can re-emerge gnustep-base/gnustep-base which should finish compiling with no errors (it depends on libffi) (you may have to env-update ; source /etc/profile first)... granted on amd64 it doesn't mean that it's going to run smoothly at the moment, but we're another step towards that hopefully...
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Klementas · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 47 Location: Missouri

The first libffi emerged in 2 minutes, now it takes 3 hours! This sucks!!! Why isn't there a libffi USE flag setting for the gcc ebuild if this is the only way to get libffi installed?

Also, I've changed my cflags to "-march=c3 -O2 -pipe" in the hopes that this will get programs like GWorkspace to not segfault. I'll let you know how it works. If it does, maybe the ebuilds should have a "strip-cflags" or something so I can set my cflags back to what I had; it works for my system.

mabr · n00b Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 17

I couldn't help trying this out, great job!

I'm having problem emerging gnustep-base when using your new libffi-3.3.3, with the old one, libffi-2.0_beta-r1, it works.

During configure I get this: