[mercury-users] Problems building Mercury 0.13.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.7 Tiger

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Julien Fischer wrote:

>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Markus Morawitz wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have compiled the new Mercury release 0.13.0 on a G4 running Mac OS X 
>> 10.4.7 Tiger.
>> 
>> Although using gcc version 3.3 as recommended (gcc 4.0 indeed do not work 
>> at all) I have run into problems. Luckily I was able to find a workaround 
>> changing two files after running configure and the build of Mercury 
>> succeeded.
>> 
>> In the following I will shortly describe all the necessary steps to compile 
>> and install Mercury on Mac OS X including the problem I have encountered.
>> 
>> Step 1:
>> Run the configuration script as follows:
>> ./configure --with-cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3
>> 
>> Step 2:
>> The problem occurs by linking against libgcc.a.
>> The configuration mechanism uses the command `/usr/bin/gcc-3.3 -print- 
>> libgcc-file-name` to link against the library. But unfortunately this 
>> command only results in the string "libgcc.a" and not the full path of the 
>> library (which gcc-4.0 does!). The linker cannot find libgcc.a and fails.
>> 
>
> The configure script uses that mechanism because that's what the
> gcc documentation says you should do to link against libgcc.  It looks
> like the version of gcc-3.3 supplied with 10.4.7 (note that on 10.3.9 gcc-3.3 
> works fine.)

It might have helped had I completed that sentence ... what I meant to say
was that it looks like the version of gcc-3.3 supplied with 10.4.7 is
buggy.

Julien.
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