Re: MacOS X

[richmit]

On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 09:08  PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

>    From: richmit <address@hidden>
>    Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:12:11 -0500

>    I also had to use the following command line for configure to get a
>    valid build environment:
>
>    CPPFLAGS=-traditional-cpp CC=/usr/bin/gcc3 ./configure
>    --prefix=/usr/local/ --disable-threads
>
> normally `--prefx=/usr/local' is the default and can be omitted.  is
> this not the case on MacOS X?  (or is the difference the extra "/" ?)

yea, --prefix is irrelevant here.  What is of note is that gcc3 did
a better job than gcc2.  It is also important to note that many of
the config tests get incorrect results without the CPPFLAGS variable
set.

For example, the tests for usleep couldn't find the declaration in
the header files.