bug#24631: Mac OS X 10.5.8: build error, undefined symbols

[Jens Bauer]

I'm trying to build autogen on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
Building all dependencies goes alright until I'm building guile.
I've built all libraries as static libraries and placed them in /opt, mostly 
because I don't want gmp to be shared.

Here's my build-recipe. "dlxb" means "download, extract and build", the 
arguments are passed to configure from package's own build directory:
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dlxb gmp-5.1.3.tar.bz2 --disable-shared --prefix=/opt
dlxb libunistring-0.9.6.tar.gz --disable-shared --prefix=/opt
dlxb libffi-3.2.1.tar.gz --disable-shared --prefix=/opt

dlxb libatomic_ops-7.4.4.tar.gz --disable-shared --prefix=/opt
dlxb gc-7.6.0.tar.gz --disable-shared --prefix=/opt

dlxb guile-2.0.12.tar.gz --disable-shared --with-libgmp-prefix=/opt 
--with-libunistring-prefix=/opt --prefix=/opt
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Here's the last lines of the output:
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ranlib: file: .libs/libguile-2.0.a(unistd.o) has no symbols
ranlib: file: .libs/libguile-2.0.a(wctype-h.o) has no symbols
  CCLD     guile
Undefined symbols:
  "_CFRelease", referenced from:
      _libunistring_gl_locale_name_default in libunistring.a(localename.o)
  "_CFLocaleCopyCurrent", referenced from:
      _libunistring_gl_locale_name_default in libunistring.a(localename.o)
  "_CFLocaleGetIdentifier", referenced from:
      _libunistring_gl_locale_name_default in libunistring.a(localename.o)
  "_CFStringGetCString", referenced from:
      _libunistring_gl_locale_name_default in libunistring.a(localename.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [guile] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
Failed (guile) 
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-As you see, it's a linker error, and it means that the CoreFoundation 
framework is not linked.
The error might be related to libunistring referencing the mentioned symbols.

I've searched the net and come across only very few similar problems.
This is probably the closest match:
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13683581/undefined-symbols-when-trying-to-compile-rtaudio>

When I look at the Makefile in the build directory, I see lines including the 
CoreFoundation framework:


Makefile:INTLLIBS = -lintl -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
Makefile:INTL_MACOSX_LIBS = -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
Makefile:LIBINTL = -lintl -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation
Makefile:LTLIBINTL = -lintl -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation

-And in other Makefiles as well, a whole bunch in total.

Here's some relevant output from uname:
uname -m: Power Macintosh
uname -p: powerpc
uname -r: 9.8.0
uname -s: Darwin

-Yes, I'm on a PowerMac, a PowerPC based one; not an Intel based Mac. ;)
The error might show up on Intel based Macs too, though.


Love
Jens