[Bug 739152] git master build from jhbuild on Linux tries to build Cocoa files with GNUstep, fails

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739152
  GStreamer | gst-plugins-bad | git

--- Comment #5 from Pietro Gagliardi (andlabs) <pietro10 at mac.com> 2014-10-26 13:22:29 UTC ---
Yes, from what I can tell it's specifically a gcc issue; clang supports __block
(and this has caused problems for people who have used __block as an identifier
in the past; a cursory Google search shows both glibc and GNUstep itself as
victims).

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-09/msg00264.html is the only thing I could find
regarding discussion of how to implement blocks in gcc; it mostly went nowhere,
with some people wondering if FSF legal would complain if the Apple gcc
implementation (wait, there is one?) could be patched into the official gcc
directly.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/9c8bbe68490d277cf64459b3390cf48e2a09ddf6?utm_source=anzwix
it appears the FreeBSD version of gcc also includes blocks.

As for what GStreamer should do, I have no idea.

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