Hello

Im trying to update my gnustep2 packages for Debian13

As Debian 13 comes with gnustep with the old GNU runtime which is incompatible with modern objective C technologies such as ARC, I always have to build separate packages.

To separate them from the old runtime so they could coexist on a Linux system, I use separate directory layouts so applications with old and new runtimes could coexist.

This worked for many years but now with Debian13 I run into the issue that GNUstep make always adds -DGNUSTEP_RUNTIME=1 and thus subsequent code fails to compile as it thinks it uses the old runtime.


The setup is like this:

export CC="/usr/bin/clang"
export CXX="/usr/bin/clang++"
export PREFIX="/"
export PATH="/usr/GNUstep2/System/Tools:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/"
export RUNTIME_VERSION="gnustep-2.0"
export OBJCFLAGS="-fblocks"
export GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN="SYSTEM"

    ./configure \
            --with-layout=gnustep2 \
            --disable-importing-config-file \
            --enable-native-objc-exceptions \
            --enable-objc-arc \
            --enable-install-ld-so-conf \
            --with-library-combo=ng-gnu-gnu \
            --with-config-file=/etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf \
            --with-user-config-file='.GNUstep.conf' \
            --with-user-defaults-dir='GNUstep/Library/Defaults' \
            --with-objc-lib-flag="-l:libobjc.so.4.6"


especially the RUNTIME_VERSION environment variable and the --with-library-combo=ng-gnu-gnu should enforce the newer runtime.

but when I install gnustep make and then run

# /usr/GNUstep2/System/Tools/gnustep-config --objc-flags
-MMD -MP -DGNUSTEP_RUNTIME=1 -D_NONFRAGILE_ABI=1 -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -fno-strict-aliasing -fexceptions -fobjc-exceptions -D_NATIVE_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS -pthread -fPIC -Wall -DGSWARN -DGSDIAGNOSE -Wno-import -fblocks -fobjc-runtime=gnustep-2.0 -fblocks -I. -I/root/GNUstep/Library/Headers -I/usr/local/include

this is especially troublesome:

-DGNUSTEP_RUNTIME=1  && -fobjc-runtime=gnustep-2.0  ??


Does anyone have an idea whats wrong with GNUstep make here or how this could be worked around?




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