Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[Camm Maguire]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> On November 2, 2006 9:22 AM you wrote:
> > ...
> > Bill Page wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here is a recipe that seems to work for me and avoids reference
> > > to fink or other non-gcl related libraries:
> > > 
> > >  $ export
> LIBRARY_PATH=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/new/gcl-2.6.8pre/binutils/intl
> > >  $ make clean
> > >  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-locbfd 
> > --disable-statsysbfd
> > >  $ make
> > >  $ make install
> > > 
> > 
> > locbfd should be the default on macosx, as we have Aurelien's specific
> > mods for .o file loading.
> 
> Something subtle is still not right about this. If I omit --enable-locbfd
> from the .configure then I get problems later gettext (unless gettext
> is already installed elsewhere).
> 
> But worse is this:
> 
>  $ export
> LIBRARY_PATH=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/new/gcl-2.6.8pre/binutils/intl
> 
> Something is strange about the way that gcl links to libintl.
> On MAC OS if I do not include LIBRARY_PATH and if libintl is
> not in the system default path, then building gcl fails.
> 
> If I do include the 'export LIBRARY_PATH ..." then the build
> succeeds but loading this library is "dynamic". This causes
> trouble later if I try to use gcl to build Axiom without first
> setting LIBRARY_PATH. Isn't there some way to force the MAC
> to static link this library?

OK, I've commited the removal of -lintl from powerpc-macosx.defs from
both branches.  This and the --disable-nls which is now in
configure.in and passed to the binutils subconfigures should remove
the above.  I.e. ./configure --prefix=...  should work, if anyone has
a moment to verify.

Take care,

-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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