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

[Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I guess the only concrete suggestion I'd have is using the
`gnustep-config --base-libs`, and
`gnustep-config --objc-flags`, for the header files/link flags.

The cpp flags aren't really shown in this patch, I think that should
allow it to work for
the case where someone installs gnustep by hand, using the default
configuration as well
as these distro packages.