[Bug-zile] Building lrex-gnu.so on Mac OS [Was Re: Zile Lua: Gary, please feel free to look after the branch for now]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Brian,

On 9 Aug 2011, at 20:19, Brian Maher wrote:
>> The trick is to manually build a libgnu.a from -fpic objects of regex.o and
>> supporting files from a recent gnulib clone, extract those objects from the
>> archive into the lrex_gnu directory, and then create a shared library from
>> them and the objects from lrex_gnu itself.  It's painful and error prone
>> but can be done.  Ping me if you'd like me to look up the recipe I used in
>> my shell history.
> 
> Ya, I'm interested... perhaps you could check-in your script complete
> with a curl command to download gnulib?

I found this patch, which I made when I first encountered the problem but then
lost track of.

Assuming you have a gnulib clone on your hard-drive somewhere, there's no need
to download another copy, just run gnulib-tool from the lrex-gnu directory as
described in the blurb of the attached patch. (Besides I don't have a commit
bit for lrex, maybe Reuben can drop it in contrib/ or something?)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)

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