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Re: [Axiom-developer] configure.ac.pamphlet
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] configure.ac.pamphlet |
Date: |
05 Nov 2006 04:25:02 +0100 |
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga <address@hidden> writes:
| Waldek Hebisch wrote:
| > configure.ac.pamphlet contains the following:
| >
| > *darwin*)
| > PLF=MACOSXplatform
| > CCF="-O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -D${PLF} \
| > -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/sys"
| > GCLOPTS="--enable-vssize=65536*2 --enable-maxpage=256*1024
--disable-locbfd \
| > --disable-statsysbfd --enable-custreloc --disable-tkconfig \
| > --enable-machine=pwerpc-macosx"
| > ;;
| > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| >
| > This look wrong on two accounts:
| > 1) standard name is 'powerpc-macosx'
| > 2) seem to ignore Intel Macs
| >
|
| There still isn't a working gcl for Intel Mac OS X, I started mangling
| the source to support "--enable-machine=i386-macosx", but it's still not
| working. Configure thinks my mac is "i686-apple-darwin8.8.1", as opposed
| to the G5 which is "powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0". I don't think there will
| ever be a i386 Apple Mac, so we may as well decide to call the machine
| "i686-macosx" instead.
I would like to see GCL (and therefore Axiom) use the canonical
triplet. That creates less opportunities for confusion.
Furthermore, I think --enable-machine should be dropped in favor of
the standard and traditional --target.
| I think we should use "--disable-statsysbfd --enable-locbfd --disable-x
| --disable-xgcl --disable-nls", those are the flags I used on the
| external gcl I have that built axiom sucessfully. The
| "--disable-tkconfig" should help with the Tcl/Tk issues we've been
| having. What are the memory and custreloc flags for?
We don't need Tcl/Tk -- that was observed by Vanuxem a while ago.
-- Gaby