[Debian GNUstep maintainers] ObjC/GNUstep surpport for armel

[Riku Voipio]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:18:21PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Could you please summarize what precisely has to be done for
> Objective-C and GNUstep?

> Is this the related upstream bug:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32332

'_URC_FATAL_PHASE1_ERROR', yes that's what we got compiling libgobc
last time. Also gobjc/gobcj++ seem to bomb out quite a few testuite
errors:

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=gcc-4.3;ver=4.3.0%7Erc2-1;arch=armel;stamp=1204636395

		=== obj-c++ Summary ===

# of expected passes		324
# of unexpected failures	86
# of expected failures		6
# of unresolved testcases	32
# of unsupported tests		13
/build/buildd/gcc-4.3-4.3.0~rc2/build/gcc/testsuite/obj-c++/../../g++  version 4.3.0 20080301 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 132801] (Debian 4.3.0~rc2-1) 

		=== objc Summary ===

# of expected passes		427
# of unexpected failures	97
# of unresolved testcases	32
# of unsupported tests		24


> Once GCC is fixed, and provided that no unpleasant issues arise with
> libffi/libffcall, I anticipate that the whole GNUstep stack will build
> (and run) without problems -- but of course that's uneducated guess.

Libffi is supported, ffcall not yet. Although recently there has been
some progress on it. Yes, it would seem likely that most of gnustep
would then compile just fine.