Re: Compiling coreutils-5.0 on a Mac Powerbook under OS X

[John Lowe]

In message <85r7n4ekkw.fsf@pi.meyering.net>, Jim Meyering 
<jim@meyering.net> writes
> John Lowe <jrnl@bytetype.co.uk> wrote:
> > I am trying to compile some of coreutils-5.0 on a Mac PowerBook G4 15".
> > If it is relevant I can post more details of the machine.
>
> Thanks for the report.
> Can you try again using a more recent version?
> A lot changed between 5.0 and 5.2.1.
>
>  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz
>  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2

Thanks for the quick response. I have done as you suggested and 
downloaded coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz - there are still errors, but not 
quite the same ones:

=======================================================================
source='nl.c' object='nl.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/nl.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/nl.TPo' \
depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../config/depcomp \
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I. -I../lib -I../lib   -g -O2 -c 
nl.c system.h:18: header file 'alloca.h' not found
system.h:41: warning: could not use precompiled header 
'/usr/include/unistd-gcc3.p', because: system.h:41: warning: macro 
'getcwd' defined by ../config.h conflicts with precomp system.h:62: 
header file 'localedir.h' not found
../lib/regex.h:535: illegal expression, found `__restrict'
../lib/regex.h:535: syntax error, found `]'
../lib/regex.h:536: illegal function definition, found `)'
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in 
basic mode make: *** [nl.o] Error 1
======================================================================

If there is anything I can try to help to fix this please say.
--
John Lowe
jrnl@bytetype.co.uk