Re: [Chicken-users] Building Chicken on OS X Lion

[Hans Nowak]

On 9/13/12 1:18 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> Hans,
> I've verified that chicken 4.7.0.6 builds, installs and tests out correctly on 
> Lion
> with Xcode 4.4.1.  It works fine with either gcc or clang.  Here is my test 
> line:
>
> make PLATFORM=macosx PREFIX=$PWD/inst C_COMPILER=clang all install check
>
>  From your paste, it looks like you're not providing a PREFIX.  Can you try it 
> with
> a prefix, even a temporary one, such as $PWD/inst or ~/local/chicken?  Sometimes
> we get strange hangs on install when you have an older (quite a bit older) 
> version of
> chicken already installed in the PREFIX, or hanging out somewhere weird on your
> system where it's in the dynamic linker path and interfering with the install.
>
> So I would try a temporary prefix and also, try to hunt down old
> versions of chicken shared libraries hanging out on your disk.
>
> I attached the version output of xcodebuild, clang, gcc and ld I used.

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply. It turns out that with a prefix, everything works 
correctly. It was only if I tried to install to the default location 
(/usr/local/) that it would hang. I think this was indeed because of a 
previous (botched) installation, because for some reason the modules.db 
file was read-only. Fixing the permissions on that file seems to have 
fixed the problem.

--
Hans Nowak