Re: [Bug-dejagnu] building dejagnu under osx

[Ben Elliston]

Hi Dan

> I fussed some trying to build dejagnu-1.4.4, and keep getting an
> error that rejects my seemingly perfectly good gcc compiler.  Here
> is an excerpt from config.log

> configure: failed program was:
> | #ifndef __cplusplus
> |   choke me
> | #endif

Just because the program failed to compile doesn't mean that your
compiler is broken.  These tests can fail and are used to indicate
characteristics of your system.

> and another excerpt ...
> 
> configure:3020: g++ -c -g -O2  conftest.cc >&5
> configure: In function `int main()':
> configure:3017: error: `exit' undeclared (first use this function)
> configure:3017: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only 
> once for
>     each function it appears in.)
> configure:3023: $? = 1

Likewise here.

> As a result of this, "make" simply does nothing.

That's because DejaGnu is written in a scripting language and has very
little to do in the "make all" step.  If you type "make install",
you'll see a lot more activity.  :-)

Cheers, Ben

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