Re: [Axiom-developer] configure.ac.pamphlet

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga <address@hidden> writes:

| Waldek Hebisch wrote:
| > configure.ac.pamphlet contains the following:
| > 
| >     *darwin*)
| >         PLF=MACOSXplatform
| >         CCF="-O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -D${PLF} \
| >             -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/sys"
| >         GCLOPTS="--enable-vssize=65536*2 --enable-maxpage=256*1024 
--disable-locbfd \
| >             --disable-statsysbfd  --enable-custreloc --disable-tkconfig \
| >             --enable-machine=pwerpc-macosx"
| >         ;;
| >                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| > 
| > This look wrong on two accounts: 
| > 1) standard name is 'powerpc-macosx'
| > 2) seem to ignore Intel Macs
| > 
| 
| There still isn't a working gcl for Intel Mac OS X, I started mangling
| the source to support "--enable-machine=i386-macosx", but it's still not
| working. Configure thinks my mac is "i686-apple-darwin8.8.1", as opposed
| to the G5 which is "powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0". I don't think there will
| ever be a i386 Apple Mac, so we may as well decide to call the machine
| "i686-macosx" instead.

I would like to see GCL (and therefore Axiom) use the canonical
triplet.  That creates less opportunities for confusion.  
Furthermore, I think --enable-machine should be dropped in favor of
the standard and traditional --target.

| I think we should use "--disable-statsysbfd --enable-locbfd --disable-x
| --disable-xgcl --disable-nls", those are the flags I used on the
| external gcl I have that built axiom sucessfully. The
| "--disable-tkconfig" should help with the Tcl/Tk issues we've been
| having. What are the memory and custreloc flags for?

We don't need Tcl/Tk -- that was observed by Vanuxem a while ago.

-- Gaby