Re: MacOSX again (sorry)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JM" == Jacobo Myerston <address@hidden> writes:

JM> I know what you say about the Apple cc compiler, but I want to try
JM> to compile swarm on OSX with the flags -cpp-traditional. According
JM> to several Darwin developers the cc compiler with the
JM> -cpp-traditional flag behave like gnu-gcc.  Using this and other
JM> patches a lot of gnu software is already ported to Darwin.  I've
JM> already compile tcltk, blt and hdf5. It remains only swarm.

Swarm is an Objective C library and uses GNU extensions such as nested
functions; Swarm is different from Tcl/Tk, BLT, and HDF5.  In the end,
I was able to compile Swarm, but only by disabling a lot of code.

Note that it is only on MacOS X that these features are broken.
Dozens of other platforms work fine.  The good news is that the GCC
3.1 development branch finally bootstraps on Darwin.  Of course, it
doesn't actually install and work due to configuration problems but it
is getting closer.

For your information, I'm typing this on a MacOS X box.


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