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

[Ben Abbott]

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 04:45PM, "Ben Abbott" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 03:34PM, "John Swensen" <address@hidden> 
>wrote:
>>
>>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
>
>John,
>
>Using libtool prevents mixing gcc versions (the libraries conflict).
>
>You'll need to install gfortran for you system's gcc. You can get one for 
>Leopard or Snow Leopard at the link below.
>
>    http://r.research.att.com/tools/
>
>I've attached my notes on how I do my build.
>
>Ben
>

Thomas' response reminded me that I forgot to include the two patches I'm 
using. They are attached.

Ben

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