Re: [gnugo-devel] GNU Go 3.7.13

[Daniel Bump]

> Gnugo 3.7.13 configures and makes out-of-the-box with no magic  
> twiddling required on a Mac OS X 10.5.6 machine, with gcc 4.2.1
> 
> I have previously installed xcode; I'm pretty sure this is required to  
> build GnuGo on Max OS X - this should be in the documentation.

Good point, we'll address this.

There remains one issue with the OS/X build.

Line 4518 of configure is "rm -f conftest*" and
this causes a warning since at this point there is
a directory called conftest.dSYM. Here is some
discussion of this problem:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-April/078807.html

This could be fixed by changing the line to
rm -f -r conftest* but this would mean hand-editing
configure since which is an automatically generated
file (by autoconf).

Here is something I don't understand. If I add the
line:

ls -l [absolute path to build directory] 

at the very end of configure I can see that this directory
conftest.dSYM still exists when configure is
through. However after it exists the directory is gone.

I am inclined to feel that this is best left
unfixed for GNU Go 3.8.

Dan