Re: [PATCH 2/7] Make the gdb.objc tests compile

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

Matt> I guess at the time all this stuff broke I never felt that was an
Matt> option (and still feel it is terrible, yet better than the status
Matt> quo)...  Since it is likely *most* people running the testsuite
Matt> won't have gnustep-base installed, nor all its shell script
Matt> environment variables since it tends to install its header files
Matt> in weird locations.

Matt> I don't see all those -I and -L flags though, so this seems likely
Matt> it depends upon a certain installation/configuration of
Matt> gnustep-base which installs stuff in places the compiler will pick
Matt> them up (likely a distro's specific configuration which isn't the
Matt> default to conform to distribution specific installation rules)

Yeah, at least on Fedora, if I "dnf install" the gnustep-base-devel
package, that is enough.

I personally think it's fine to require gdb developers to install random
stuff like this, at least if it is pre-packaged.

Anyway if there's a better way to do it, I'm open to that as well.

Tom