[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #3561: Objective C not supported by gcc
- From: "jprostko" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:20:01 -0000
#3561: Objective C not supported by gcc
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Reporter: js | Owner: jprostko
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: R1
Component: Build System | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords: objective c gnu gcc
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jprostko):
I believe the plan is to only have C/C++ language support as part of the
buildtools in the Haiku repository, as they are the only ones that are
needed to build Haiku. Obviously, what you are getting at is having the
GCC optional package have Objective C support though.
I think the best plan is to set up something at Haiku Ports in sys-devel
for GCC so anybody can build GCC however they want, including other
language support, for example. That way we can leave any patches having
to do with anything other than C or C++ out of the trunk of the Haiku
buildtools. Based on size constraints we tend to have for release images,
the Development package that comes with Haiku may or may not include other
language support in the future.
I think at some point we kind of need more than just C/C++ though in a GCC
package, whether that is included in the main GCC package or some kind of
alternate package with support for all languages that Haiku supports
built-in. Right now there is a DevelopmentJava available, but making
something like DevelopmentObjc would be kind of messy compared to that,
given its nature.
I think this needs discussed a bit in any case, so I'm personally not
going to just apply the patch to the buildtools. It is cool you got it
working, but I want to discuss it first (here or elsewhere) to decide the
best course of action.
By the way, how much space does the .so for objc take up? I doubt it's
much, and if it isn't, maybe it can just be added to the GCC optional
package without any consequence. We'd have to keep the source somewhere
though, and I think keeping it at HaikuPorts would make more sense than in
the main buildtools repo.
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