Re: Some notes on Mac OS X 10.3.6 (Panther)

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marshall DeBerry" <address@hidden> writes:

> Next, I modded the SMake file in two areas:  first, I changed the line under
> aclocal.m4 from aclocal -I m4 to aclocal -I /sw/share/aclocal so that it
> points to the Panther area for the m4 macros (so far, I think this is
> right).  

I don't think it's right, because I think that the m4 here is
supposed to refer to the m4 directory in the source tree, not a
system m4 directory.  Your system m4 directory should
automatically be searched for .m4 files.  `aclocal
--print-ac-dir' should print the name of that directory.

> Next, later in the file, I changed all the cp -a 's to be cp
> -pR, as this version on BSD/Panther doesn't support the -a
> option to cp.

Okay, -a is not part of SUSv3.  I've checked in a fix.

> Given all that, I now have a way of getting through the configure part.
> Unfortunately, things are stalling out when I try to get it to start
> compiling with regards to "In file included from examine.q:43:
> factor_stats.h:46 error: parse error before the '&' token" and things go
> downhill from there.  Perhaps I still haven't set the proper environment
> variable.  I also seem to be having a similar problem with Fedora Core 3,
> with regards to the examine.q file, in terms of parse errors.

I'd be happy to fix this if I could figure out the problem.
Unfortunately there's no & on line 43 of examine.q or on line 46
of factor_stats.h, or nearby, as far as I can tell.  If you can
find the & that this talks about then I'll do my best to correct
it.
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