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

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:10:53PM +0000, John Lowe wrote:
> In message <address@hidden>, Jim Meyering 
> <address@hidden> writes
> 
> >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.
> 
> I think you're right about gcc - I'll have to see what I can find.
> ========================================================================
> gcc -v:
> 
> Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.1/specs
> Thread model: posix
> Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420 
> (prerelease)

You can switch to GCC 2.95 instead, as below :-

Mac OS X
--------

According to Brad Crittenden, GNU CSSC fails to compile under Mac OS X
with the default compiler (GCC 3.1).  However, it does work with the
alternate compiler, GCC 2.95.  To switch compilers, execute the
command "sudo gcc_select 2".  To switch back, issue the command "sudo
gcc_select 3".  You may also find it helpful to read the Porting Guide
at
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/GettingStarted/PortingUNIX/intro/index.html>.

If you attempt to compile with GCC 3.1. you may see the following error :-
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -g -O2 -c file.cc
filelock.h:50: storage size of `_ZTI9file_lock' isn't known

I don't know how to fix this error in any other way than to use GCC
version 2.95 instead, as described above.