Re: [vile] vile Digest, Vol 68, Issue 8

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:06:19PM -0800, ric smith wrote:
> I tried to compile under Snow Leopard, but it failed, complaining about
> x86_64 missing symbols.  Actually, it was the same problem when trying to
> compile under Lion.  The versions I was using up until Lion was compiled on a
> powerPC machine, which worked on an Intel machine up to Lion, when powerPC
> apps stop being supported.

I have x86_64 hardware here - seems there are three choices.  If you happen
to have the same, I can make a tar file of what I have, to try as a short
term solution.  Longer term, packages are the way to go, since they're
simpler to keep track of.

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> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:46:42 -0500
> From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
> To: ric smith <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [vile] vile Digest, Vol 68, Issue 5
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:26:01PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:34:32AM -0800, ric smith wrote:
> >> 
> >> Here are the command log, plus the other log files
> >> 
> >> This was done with a recent downloaded version of vile - 9.8, on Lion 
> >> 10.7.2
> > 
> > ah.  That's even worse than I'd assume (for Mac OS X).
> > 
> >> checking for reflex... no
> >> checking for flex... flex
> >> checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
> >> checking lex output file root... dyld: Library not loaded: 
> >> /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
> >> Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/flex
> >> Reason: Incompatible library version: flex requires version 8.0.0 or 
> >> later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
> >> ./configure: line 3827: 84190 Done                    echo '%%
> >> %%'
> >>    84191 Trace/BPT trap: 5       | $LEX
> >> configure: error: cannot find output from flex; giving up
> > 
> > What it's saying is that whatever you've got for flex is newer or whatever
> > than what's in the library.  However, that has to be "new" flex since it
> > depends upon libiconv.  Aside from the handful of applications which use its
> > reentrancy option, it's generally a step backward to be involved with it.
> > (Even if the executable worked, you couldn't build vile reliably with it).
> > 
> > Rather, use reflex 
> > 
> >     http://invisible-island.net/reflex/
> 
> by the way - I'm curious if programs compiled under Leopard need to
> be recompiled under Lion.  I've been spending most of my time recently
> on the other systems (since I'm doing more installs there), but could
> compile an executable for Leopard if that helps.  (somewhere in my
> to-do list I have a suggestion from someone to make dmg packages).
> 
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