Re: building emacs on macos 10.14

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Robert,

It looks like my ar comes from binutils-2.31.90, presumably installed from brew.

Eventually I removed my /emacs directory, checked out from scratch and the 
build succeeded... :(

Jean-Christophe 

> On Feb 21, 2019, at 1:52, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm recently having issues with building emacs from the master branch:
>> 
>>  ...
>>  CC       unistd.o
>>  CC       utimens.o
>>  CC       openat-die.o
>>  CC       save-cwd.o
>>  AR       libgnu.a
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C lib-src all
>>  CCLD     etags
>> ld: warning: ignoring file ../lib/libgnu.a, file was built for archive which 
>> is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): ../lib/libgnu.a
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>  "_c_isalnum", referenced from:
>>      _Asm_labels in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Cobol_paragraphs in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Erlang_functions in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Perl_functions in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Prolog_functions in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Ruby_functions in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Ada_getit in etags-d427b5.o
>>      ...
>>  "_c_strcasecmp", referenced from:
>>      _get_language_from_filename in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_c_strncasecmp", referenced from:
>>      _Forth_words in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _Fortran_functions in etags-d427b5.o
>>      _HTML_labels in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_getopt_long", referenced from:
>>      _main in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_optarg", referenced from:
>>      _main in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_optind", referenced from:
>>      _main in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_re_compile_pattern", referenced from:
>>      _add_regex in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_re_match", referenced from:
>>      _readline in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_re_search", referenced from:
>>      _find_entries in etags-d427b5.o
>>  "_rpl_re_set_syntax", referenced from:
>>      _add_regex in etags-d427b5.o
>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
>> invocation)
>> make[1]: *** [etags] Error 1
>> make: *** [lib-src] Error 2
>> 
>> I'm not sure what to make of that...
> 
> I build on 10.14 all the time. Do you perhaps have GNU binutils
> installed? Itʼs possible youʼre running the wrong 'ar'.
> 
> Robert

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