Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga <address@hidden> writes:

> Page, Bill wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:18 PM Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga wrote:
> 
> >> On Intel, configure of gmp fails, as it can't figure out the machine
> >> type. I have gmp 4.2.1 installed with fink, but I don't think I can
> >> build gcl with that version of gmp.
> >>

GCL should work fine with this version.  The Debian GCL package links
against this version externally (i.e. gmp not built from gcl sources)

> > 
> > Too bad. :-( There are some options that affect gcl's use of gmp.
> > See ./configure --help  You might try:
> > 
> >   --disable-dynsysgmp
> 

Just a note, this should be the default if no external gmp is found.

> My bad, this was a configure error in gcl, not gmp. The gmp configure
> and build seems to work. I made a copy of h/powerpc-macosx.defs and
> h/powerpc-macosx.h and called
> 
>  ./configure --enable-machine=i386-macosx --prefix=/usr/local
> --enable-locbfd --disable-statsysbfd
> 
> Now there's some problems with malloc.h not being found. configure.in
> has a test for powerpc-macosx that should be duplicated for the new
> i386-macosx target. I'll work on it some more tomorrow.
> 

Thanks so much for your work on this!  Will be back in town on Sunday.

Take care,

> -- 
> Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
> Programmer-Archaeologist
> University of Puerto Rico
> http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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