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

[Jim Meyering]

John Lowe <jrnl@bytetype.co.uk> wrote:
...
>>  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

It looks like you're using an apple-modified version of gcc.
What does `gcc -v' print?  And `uname -a'?

If you can compile with a stock version of gcc -- or another C
compiler altogether -- you'll probably have better luck.

Please post the output of running ./configure.