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

[Markus Morawitz]

Am 26.09.2006 um 07:31 schrieb Julien Fischer:

>
> 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.)
>
> ...
>
>> Perhaps the configuration process can be investigated and changed  
>> somehow to cope with the strange behaviour of the argument "-print- 
>> libgcc-file-name" for gcc on Mac OS X.
>
> I think the configuration process is correct in that it follows the
> documented behaviour of gcc.  I take it that the gcc 3.3 in  
> question was
> one of the Apple builds?

Yes the gcc I use is the one delivered by Apple with xcode 2.4.

Markus

>
> Julien.
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