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

[Brian Maher]

Thanks for the patch Gary, is there any reason why we don't just check
in the files generated by gnulib-tool?  The documentation seems to
indicate that as the preferred way of distribution the files:

http://www.gnu.org/s/gnulib/

Thanks,
-Brian

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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