Hello Peter -
Please forgive me in advance for reaching out directly, but I
fear I have a local problem and don't want to spam the list.
I just tried your clone suggestion below and it fails for me...
- I built a VMware Fusion virtual machine with a clean install
of Mojave 10.14.6
- Installed the XCode command line tools
- Ran: git clone
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git
- cd trunk,
followed by ./configure, make, sudo make
install
- Installed the apl keyboard and tested with ⎕plot '', which returns a syntax error
instead of the ⎕plot message.
I have repeated this exercise with High Sierra and Catalina on
physical machines with the same result.
Also, I performed a MacPorts install on High Sierra and Catalina
on physical machines; again, with the same result.
I spend much of my time in OS X command shell (iTerm2, to be
specific) and seldom have this much difficulty doing builds.
Nonetheless, I'm okay with being guilty of user-error until proven
innocent. In any case it seems clear that something big-and-basic
is wrong.
Would you be willing to send me the console log of one of your
successful builds? This would let me do a diff against my build
logs and possibly give me some clues as to what I'm doing wrong.
Kind regards,
John
On 3/7/21 9:59 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:
Hi Jürgen:
As promised a brief update note.
On a clean install of macOS Mojave 10.14.6 I confirm
that using
And with the default
settings the Terminal waltz builds clean.
And APL executes.
My hardware is an Early
2009 Mac Pro and so far there has never been a need
to patch
the installer from 2009 Snow Leopard 10.6 thru to 2018 Mojave 10.14.
I did apply a patch to
the firmware to make it a 5,1 from the original 4,1.
Will look into whether
it’s reasonable to install Catalina and Bug Sur.
respect
Peter