Re: safer way to use gnulib (for other MacOS X users)

[Thomas Treichl]

Am 17.03.10 21:45, schrieb Ben Abbott:
> On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 03:34PM, "John Swensen"<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Thomas Treichl wrote:
> >
> > > Am 16.03.10 23:38, schrieb Ben Abbott:
> > > > On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:03 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 16-Mar-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > | The dependencies of lex.cc aren't too many, so it finished quickly. Except 
> > > > > for the one failure I always get with data.cc, all tests pass.
> > > > > |
> > > > > | Thanks again!
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, so now we finally have Octave+gnulib working on OS X, except that
> > > > > we need to do something about the possibility of sigemptyset and
> > > > > sigaddset being defined as preprocessor macros.
> > > >
> > > > I've attached a diff for others who may be building on MacOS X.
> > > >
> > > > Ben
> > >
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > I wasn't able to build a development snapshot for a very long time because of 
> > > the gnulib problems. With your patch and a fresh gnulib checkout I get the 
> > > following result on my 10.6 machine
> > >
> > >   Summary:
> > >     PASS   6374
> > >     FAIL      0
> > >
> > > So wow, thanks to all developers!
> > >
> > >   Thomas
> >
> > Can one of the OSX users who have completed the build give the steps they took? 
> >  I have been reading through the mailing list and got lost in all the different 
> > things that have been attempted.  I just tried by using all the dependencies 
> > supplied by fink and am getting a gfortran issue.  Is there a reason that the 
> > Octave is complaining about the fink gfortran?
> >
> > It has been months since I have been able to do a recent build and am really 
> > looking forward to working in OSX again, rather than a virtual machine with 
> > Linux.
> >
> > John
>
> John,
>
> Using libtool prevents mixing gcc versions (the libraries conflict).
>
> You'll need to install gfortran for you system's gcc. You can get one for 
> Leopard or Snow Leopard at the link below.
>
>      http://r.research.att.com/tools/
>
> I've attached my notes on how I do my build.
>
> Ben

Nice description, great work! Maybe this could be useful for your 
description: I was talking to the developer of acx_pthread.m4 and my 
patch has been applied to the original sources of the m4 fiel. It 
currently is not in the Octave sources but this will become the official 
changes (then -D_REENTRANT isn't needed anymore)

  diff -r 3373fdc0b14a m4/acx_pthread.m4
  --- a/m4/acx_pthread.m4 Wed Mar 17 09:34:43 2010 -0400
  +++ b/m4/acx_pthread.m4 Wed Mar 17 21:54:22 2010 +0100
  @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@

           acx_pthread_flags="-pthreads pthread -mt -pthread
  $acx_pthread_flags"
           ;;
  +
  +       *-darwin*)
  +       acx_pthread_flags="-pthread $acx_pthread_flags"
  +       ;;
   esac

   if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then

I use Apple's original libtool and this works fine for me (see my email 
before that I link libttolize to glibtoolize) - I never was able to 
build and to use my own libtool, a selfmade libtool never worked for me.

The Octave's bootstrap file now correctly comes with the "find_tools 
shasum" test (I was also talkin' to the developer of bootstrap) and 
shasum is found in 10.6 directly

  ~/Development/octave$ which shasum
  /usr/bin/shasum

so you don't need this "must download git workaround to install sha1sum" 
anymore...

But that's it from my side - you already mentioned everything else 
that's needed! Merci.

  Thomas