[Ecls-list] 0.9l does not build on OS X 10.5

Shoaib Kamil skamil at cs.berkeley.edu
Mon Aug 18 21:56:30 UTC 2008


On Aug 16, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> On 8/16/08, Thomas F. Burdick <tburdick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> At this point I'm no longer making an effort, I already have all the
>> lisp systems I'm interested in installed. But I am reporting this so
>> that you all know that 0.9l indeed does not build on clean
>> installation of OS X 10.5 plus the developer tools. You should
>> probably either add system-specific instructions or just mark it as a
>> bit-rotted port.
>
> I understand your bitterness about not being able to build it, but I
> do have a 10.5 in my laptop (intel MacBook) and it works perfectly
> fine. The problem is related to the PPC architecture and since I do
> not have any PPC with Mac OS X 10.5, I cannot do anything about it
> right now. So, in short, I am _not_ going to mark it bit-rotted,
> trashed,etc. Works for me, may tag that the PPC port cannot be
> maintained right now.

ECL 0.9l compiles for me on PPC Mac OS X 10.5, with a small fix.  In  
src/configure, line 4223,
export ABI=mode32

should be

export ABI=32

With that small fix, "./configure --without-system-gmp ; make" builds  
ECL fine.  However,
when I try to *run* the executable ecl, I get a bus error.

sk


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