Re: safer way to use gnulib (for other MacOS X users)

[John Swensen]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:

> Am 16.03.10 23:38, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>> On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:03 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16-Mar-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> 
>>> | The dependencies of lex.cc aren't too many, so it finished quickly. 
>>> Except for the one failure I always get with data.cc, all tests pass.
>>> |
>>> | Thanks again!
>>> 
>>> OK, so now we finally have Octave+gnulib working on OS X, except that
>>> we need to do something about the possibility of sigemptyset and
>>> sigaddset being defined as preprocessor macros.
>> 
>> I've attached a diff for others who may be building on MacOS X.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I wasn't able to build a development snapshot for a very long time because of 
> the gnulib problems. With your patch and a fresh gnulib checkout I get the 
> following result on my 10.6 machine
> 
>  Summary:
>    PASS   6374
>    FAIL      0
> 
> So wow, thanks to all developers!
> 
>  Thomas

Can one of the OSX users who have completed the build give the steps they took? 
 I have been reading through the mailing list and got lost in all the different 
things that have been attempted.  I just tried by using all the dependencies 
supplied by fink and am getting a gfortran issue.  Is there a reason that the 
Octave is complaining about the fink gfortran?

It has been months since I have been able to do a recent build and am really 
looking forward to working in OSX again, rather than a virtual machine with 
Linux.

John