[Texmacs-dev] Re: [TeXmacs] [BUGREPORT] Compiling TeXmacs from source on MacOS

[Henri Lesourd]

Martin Costabel wrote:

> When I compile texmacs-1.0.6.12 on MacOSX 10.5, this problem is caught 
> by the configure script which has a test for precisely this question. 
> It puts
> #define guile_str_size_t size_t
> into config.h.

It was not caught by my own configure script. On the
other hand, what you say shows that at least, it works
on some Macs.


> This corresponds to what my libguile.17.dylib is using, as witnessed 
> by the corresponding declaration in guile/gh.h:
> SCM_API char *gh_scm2newstr(SCM str, size_t *lenp);
Probably again one of these Guile version problems...


> >   Casting to (int*) enables compiling glue.cpp ;
>
>
> If this is necessary, the configure script isn't doing its job.
No, it didn't correctly its job. Go figure why ;-(...


> > 2/ the makefile doesn't work, for the version of "ld"
> >   shipped with Mac OS X on the machine I had doesn't
> >   understands the "-rpath" option inside -lW (explicitely,
> >   it tells me : I don't recognize "-rpath") ;
>
>
> On MacOSX 10.4 and earlier, -rpath was indeed unknown.

Aha.


> On MacOSX 10.5 it exists as an ld flag, but it will probably not do 
> what you think it does. Searching for shared libraries works 
> differently on MacOSX than on linux.
>
> In which part of the sources does this problem appear?

It was in the main makefile.

Finally, I patched src/src/makefile (I just removed
all occurrences of "-rpath", or something like that),
and all went fine.


> I see -rpath in the CONFIG_BPATH variable, but again, configure sets 
> this to "" on MacOSX, and uses -rpath only on linux.

It didn't do it on the Mac I was working on yesterday.


> I see it also in the maple plugin, but also only in the context of linux.
No no, it has nothing to do with the plugins.


> What sources are these? Not those of texmacs-1.0.6.12, it seems.
I downloaded the source tarball for "last stable
version", on the page:
http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/sources.en.html

at:
ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/targz/TeXmacs-1.0.6-src.tar.gz


That's the link on the page. If things have
been improved since then, perhaps should it
be updated (?).