[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  OK I think this is in now on branches 2.6.8 and head.
Please let me know if problems persist.

Take care,

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
> 
> I have succeeded in compiling gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2 on the
> SourceForge compile farm 'ppc-osx3' server, however some patches
> were necessary. This machine has Xcode installed by not Fink.
> 
> First, I checked out gcl-2.6.8pre from cvs on October 15, 2006,
> created a tarball and scp'd it and the standard gnu gettext-0.15
> and sed-4.1.4 tarballs to my home directory on SourceForge.
> 
> Next I compiled and installed gettext and sed with
>   --prefix=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx
> creating the ~/osx/bin and ~/osx/lib directories. These are
> apparently required to satisfy the gcl build dependencies on
> OSX 10.2. (Note: A Fink installation might also have provided
> these in the /sw directory.)
> 
> Then I added:
> 
>   export PATH=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/bin:$PATH
>   export LIBRARY_PATH=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
>   export CPPFLAGS="-no-cpp-precomp"
>   cd osx
> 
> to ~/.profile so that after re-login the environment was set
> appropriately.
> 
> I untarred gcl into the osx directory creating ~/osx/gcl-2.6.8pre
> Then I applied the following patches (most of which have been
> previously reported on the gcl email list by other people):
> 
> ------------------------
> ppc-osx3:~/osx billpage$ diff -Naur old/gcl* new/gcl*
> 
> This patch required so libintl is found in $LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> diff -Naur old/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.defs
> new/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.defs
> --- old/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.defs      Thu Jul 15 09:28:43 2004
> +++ new/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.defs      Sun Oct 15 22:07:45 2006
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> 
>  # Set this to avoid warnings when linking against libncurses.
>  # This is due to the requirements of the two level namespace.
> -LIBS := `echo $(LIBS) | sed -e 's/-lncurses/ /'` /sw/lib/libintl.dylib
> +LIBS := `echo $(LIBS) | sed -e 's/-lncurses/ /'` -lintl
> 
>  # Set this for the linker to operate correctly.
>  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.2
> @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@
>  # This appears to be no longer necessary on Panther.
>  ARRS = libtool -static -o
> 
> -FINAL_CFLAGS := `echo $(FINAL_CFLAGS) | sed -e 's:-g::g'`
> \ No newline at end of file
> +FINAL_CFLAGS := `echo $(FINAL_CFLAGS) | sed -e 's:-g::g'`
> 
> This patch is required to define sbrk.
> 
> diff -Naur old/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.h
> new/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.h
> --- old/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.h Thu Dec  8 17:31:25 2005
> +++ new/gcl-2.6.8pre/h/powerpc-macosx.h Sun Oct 15 21:32:23 2006
> @@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
>  #undef SET_REAL_MAXPAGE
>  #define SET_REAL_MAXPAGE { my_sbrk(0); real_maxpage = (int)
> mach_maplimit/PAGESIZE; }
> 
> -#define sbrk my_sbrk
> +#include <unistd.h> /* to get sbrk defined */
>  extern void *my_sbrk(int incr);
> +#define sbrk my_sbrk
> 
> 
>  /** (si::save-system "...") a.k.a. unexec implementation  */
> 
> This patch is required to remove functions symbols from plt.
> 
> diff -Naur old/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/makefile new/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/makefile
> --- old/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/makefile Fri Sep 15 10:45:18 2006
> +++ new/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/makefile Mon Oct 16 22:03:52 2006
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
>                              print a}' \
>                         k=$(LEADING_UNDERSCORE) |\
>                         sort | \
> -                       grep -v '[^ \t_]_' |\
> +                       grep -v 'restFP' | grep -v 'saveFP' | grep -v
> '[^ \t_]_' |\
>                         $(AWK) '{A[++k]=$$0} END {for (i=1;i<=k;i++) \
>                                 printf("MY_PLT(%s)%s\n",A[i],i==k ? "" :
> ",");}' >$@
> 
> This patch is required to find malloc.h on some OSX machines.
> 
> diff -Naur old/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/unexmacosx.c
> new/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/unexmacosx.c
> --- old/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/unexmacosx.c     Thu Dec 15 10:48:43 2005
> +++ new/gcl-2.6.8pre/o/unexmacosx.c     Tue Oct 17 18:55:04 2006
> @@ -124,7 +124,13 @@
>  #endif
>  #include <mach-o/nlist.h>
>  #include <mach-o/getsect.h>
> +/* not <sys/malloc.h> */
> +/* not <malloc.h> */
> +#if defined (HAVE_MALLOC_MALLOC_H)
>  #include <malloc/malloc.h>
> +#else
> +#include <objc/malloc.h>
> +#endif
> 
>  #include <sys/mman.h>
> 
> ppc-osx3:~/osx billpage$
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Finally I built gcl with the following commands:
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/home/users/b/bi/billpage/osx \
>      --disable-tkconfig  --disable-statsysbfd --enable-locbfd
>   make
>   make install
> 
> ---------
> 
> The resulting gcl binary (unixport/saved_gcl) in available here:
> 
>   http://page.axiom-developer.org/gcl-2.6.8-osx10-20061017.bin
> 
> I would be very happy if anyone with a MAC OSX machine would try
> this version of gcl on their systems and let me know of any
> problems.
> 
> I am currently working on completing the Axiom build based on the
> new build-improvements branch.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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