Re: [Chicken-users] building readline extension on OSX problem: csc include directory (-I switch)

[Felix Winkelmann]

Ed Watkeys wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2004, at 5:51 PM, gian paolo ciceri wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > in order to build readline extension on OSX
> > I need to specify as additional include directory
> > /sw/include and as additional lib /sw/lib (this is the
> > standard places of my fink-driven sw environment).
> >
> > But when I try the -I switch for csc I take...
> >
> > dottie:/tmp/readline.egg.dir root# /usr/local/bin/csc -s -O2 -d0 
> > -I/sw/include readline.scm -L -lreadline -L -lncurses
> > csc: invalid option `-/'
>
> Try sticking a "-C" in front of the "-I" -- it tells the compiler to 
> pass the next option to the compiler, just like "-L" with the linker 
> options.

Indeed. That's right. The option-parser for csc is admittedly broken:
everything it doesn't understand is split into one-character options.
So the error message is rather unhelpful. I'm going to fix this,
promised... ;-)


cheers,
felix