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  • Missing Foundation/NSObject.h ...
  • calendar.jsm does not compile ...

    • Missing Foundation/NSObject.h ...

    The compilation error:

    xchange skyrix-xml # make -s debug=yes install
    Making all in SaxObjC...
    Making all for library libSaxObjC...
    In file included from SaxAttributeList.m:23:
    SaxAttributeList.h:26:32: warning Foundation/NSObject.h No such file or
    directory
    In file included from SaxAttributeList.m:23
    SaxAttributeList.h:45: cannot find protocol declaration for 'NSCopying'
    SaxAttributeList.h:50: cannot find interface declaration for 'NSObject',
    superclass of 'SaxAttributeList'
    make[2]: ***
    [shered_debug_obj/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/SaxAttributeList.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [libSaxObjC.all.library.variables] Error 2
    make: *** [internal-all] Error 2

    There seem to be two common reasons for that:

    A) you didn't source GNUstep.sh. You always need to setup the GNUstep environment prior compilation. This is done by the GNUstep.sh shell file which is contained in the root of you install-tree in Makefiles/GNUstep.sh.

    B) you didn't properly configure gstep-make as explained. More exactly you didn't specify --with-library-combo=gnu-fd-nil to the configure process. This results in a GNUstep environment setup for the gnu-gnu-gnu library combo, which is wrong.
    If you want to know more about library combos, please look into the DESIGN document contained in gstep-make.

    calendar.jsm does not compile ...

    The compilation error - apparently specific to Solaris 8:

    calendar.jsm:1881:1: missing terminating " character calendar.jsm:1882:5:
    missing terminating " character calendar.jsm:1885:1: missing terminating "
    character calendar.jsm:1886:5: missing terminating " character
    calendar.jsm:1886: error: parse error before '@' token
    calendar.jsm:1889:1: missing terminating " character make[2]: ***
    [shared_debug_obj/sparc/solaris2.8/gnu-fd-nil/WECalendarField.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [libWEExtensions.all.library.variables] Error 2 make: ***
    [internal-all] Error 2

    We don't know yet where this error comes from :-(