Hi David, David Chisnall wrote: > On 30/10/2020 18:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> I wonder if this is a gnustep-make issue or a project issue? > > My guess is a -make issue. I suspect a newer LLD is more aggressive > about rejecting incompatible options than older linkers. > >> Where are -r and -rdynamic coming from? I found nothing therelike in >> gsc's subproject itself. > > -r is from the subproject makefile. Subprojects are linked as a .o > file that is then subsequently linked into the final binary, which > requires -r. > > I believe -rdynamic is added globally because it's necessary for > dladdr to give useful outputs on most ELF platforms, which is > essential for pretty back traces. We probably need to explicitly > remove it from LDFLAGS in the subproject things in -make (it's only > meaningful when producing a fully linked output).
Your explanation sounds reasonable. I don't know how to filter out something in subprojects, but to test your hypothesis I edited "target.make" in the FreeBSD section and just removed rdynamic globally and back finishes compiling. A quick test shows also that most applications do work! Riccardo
