AppleScript Studio Quit Working

Last December (2007) I followed the tutorials in the "Introduction to AppleScript Studio Programming Guide" to create a handful of demo projects, plus one of my own invention that actually worked!
Today I sat down to resume my learning and I found that, while the target apps I had created still work, I cannot rebuild the projects. The error message is the same in every case:
Tool:0: Command /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 failed with exit code 1
Tool:0: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
load command 19 unknown cmd field
To reproduce the error, I...
Open the project's folder
Double-click on the <projectname>.xcodeproj icon
Click the "Build and Go" button.
Any idea what may have changed since last December?
--Gil

I just encountered a problem with my project that occurs under the same circumstances: open my project file, click on the build button, and it fails with the same error:
/usr/bin/ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/WebKit load command 19 unknown cmd field
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I just ran an update to move to 10.4.11. I get the feeling that updated Webkit, and that's causing the problem. I'm on a PPC machine running XCode 2.1 but perhaps it's time to check out 2.5.
For what it's worth, I found that I was still able to compile using "xcodebuild" on the command line. You might try giving this a shot. From the Terminal, cd into the project's directory; then execute "xcodebuild -alltargets clean && xcodebuild build" -- this will clean the current executable then build it.
A couple questions for you: (1) What OS are you running? (2) What version of XCode? (3) What processor architecture (Intel or PPC)?
That's all for now.. let me know how it goes..
On a side note, I found your post through a Google search, and it's only a day and a half old... nice.
(Update -- Ah... I see you solved the problem by upgrading to XCode 2.5.)
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