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

[Ben Abbott]

On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 04:52PM, "Thomas Treichl" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>Am 17.03.10 21:31, schrieb Ben Abbott:
>> On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at 03:28PM, "Thomas Treichl"<address@hidden>  
>> 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
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> I continue to encounter a failure in data.cc.
>>
>>   121>>>>>  processing 
>> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/local_clone/src/data.cc
>>   122   ***** assert(log2(complex(0,Inf)), Inf + log2(i));
>>   123 !!!!! test failed
>>   124 assert (log2 (complex (0, Inf)),Inf + log2 (i)) expected
>>   125 Inf + 2.266i
>>   126 but got
>>   127 Inf - NaNi
>>   128 NaNs don't match
>>
>> Using Apple's gcc-4.2.1, I've not been able to resolve this by changing the 
>> optimization setting. Which gcc are you using and what level of optimization?
>>
>> Ben
>
>Oh yes, I remember I had similiar problems. I used these flags for CXX 
>and for my g95 with low optimization -O instead of at least -O2 or even 
>-O3 that I used before the change to gnulib. But I can check once again 
>with higher optimization tomorrow

Are you really using g95 and not gfortran?

If so what version? and did you use it to build all the fortran dependencies?

Ben