Re: [Gcl-devel] mac os x port questions

[Lars Rosengreen]

Hi Aurelien,

> Adding GCL to Fink is something I was planning, but this is a bit 
> premature in my opinion. At present, there is one touchy issue : 
> dynamic code loading. GCL uses BFD for this. As you know, BFD is at 
> the core of the GNU toolchain. Although broadly used in the Unix 
> world, it's not officially supported for Mac OS X --- the BFD Mach-O 
> back-end is not fully functional. Therefore, I worked on this back-end 
> so as to add the missing functionalities. The bulk of the work is 
> done. However, I haven't found the time to contribute the code back to 
> the FSF yet. Neither have I found the time to add my patches to GCL's 
> local BFD tree. GCL is configured to use GCL

Ok.  When you feel the mac port is ready, I would be more than happy to 
write an ".info" file for it, and do what I can to get it into fink, if 
you don't have the time to do this.

> Alternatively, there's the dlopen workaround (--disable-statsysbfd 
> --enable-custreloc), which does not really satisfy me, but which does 
> work for Mac OS X.

If it is possible to do useful things with the mac port right now, such 
as build/use maxima, acl2 and axiom, I would suggest that maybe it is 
ready for fink.

> Anyway, to get you running : have a look at
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel/2003-10/msg00156.html
> and JUMP DIRECTLY TO STEP 4.

Ok, starting at step 4:

using cvs head from 11:00 am PST

I did the following:

$ export PATH=/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH # I don't think 
these are actually
$ export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2    # necessary anymore with 10.3
$ export LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib
$ export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/sw/include
$ export CPPFLAGS="-no-cpp-precomp"
$ ./configure --enable-machine=powerpc-macosx --enable-debug \
                        --disable-statsysbfd --enable-custreloc

$ make

make stops here:

rm -f o/cmpinclude.h ; cp h/cmpinclude.h o
(cd o; make all)
gcc -no-cpp-precomp -c -g -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char 
-fwritable-strings -pipe -g   -I/Users/lars/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk 
main.c
main.c: In function `initlisp':
main.c:481: warning: implicit declaration of function 
`gcl_init_socket_function'
gcc -no-cpp-precomp -c -g -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char 
-fwritable-strings -pipe -g   -I/Users/lars/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk 
alloc.c
gcc -no-cpp-precomp -c -g -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char 
-fwritable-strings -pipe -g   -I/Users/lars/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk 
gbc.c
In file included from gbc.c:1490:
sgbc.c: In function `memprotect_test':
sgbc.c:1114: error: `MPROTECT_ACTION_FLAGS' undeclared (first use in 
this function)
sgbc.c:1114: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sgbc.c:1114: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [gbc.o] Error 1
make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2
kinkajou:~/gcl lars$

any suggestions?  thank you very much for taking the time to help me 
with this.

have a nice weekend!

-Lars Rosengreen