Re: [bug-gawk] gawk 4.1.0 fails to build on Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Hermann Peifer]

Hi,

I am on Mac OSX 10.7.5 and had a similar error, see [1]. My workaround 
was: ./configure --with-mpfr=/opt/local

(On my MacBook, /opt/local is the root directory of the MacPorts stuff 
like mpfr, etc.)

Hermann


[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gawk.bugs/474



On 2013-07-06 5:45, Larry Baker wrote:
> gawk 4.1.0 fails to build on Mac OS X 10.6.8:
>
> > Undefined symbols:
> >   "_history_list", referenced from:
> >       _do_save in debug.o
> >       _serialize in debug.o
> > ld: symbol(s) not found
>
> history_list() does not exist in Mac OS X /usr/include/readline/readline.h.
>
> Samba already knows about this (from
> http://ftp.samba.org/pub/unpacked/samba_3_current/source4/lib/smbreadline/readline.m4):
> > # not all readline libs have rl_event_hook or history_list
> gawk 4.0.2 works fine.
>
> Straightforward config: ./configure, make.
>
> Larry Baker
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