Problems building cppunit on OSX

[shandles]

I have spent alot of time trying to get cppunit 1.10 to compile on osx with gcc 4.1.0   

I have been running into problems with the '  ar  ' command, see log below...

/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link g++  -g -O2   -o libcppunit.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -version-info 2:0:0 -release 1.10 AdditionalMessage.lo Asserter.lo BeOsDynamicLibraryManager.lo BriefTestProgressListener.lo CompilerOutputter.lo DefaultProtector.lo DynamicLibraryManager.lo DynamicLibraryManagerException.lo Exception.lo Message.lo RepeatedTest.lo PlugInManager.lo PlugInParameters.lo Protector.lo ProtectorChain.lo SourceLine.lo StringTools.lo SynchronizedObject.lo Test.lo TestAssert.lo TestCase.lo TestCaseDecorator.lo TestComposite.lo TestDecorator.lo TestFactoryRegistry.lo TestFailure.lo TestLeaf.lo TestNamer.lo TestPath.lo TestPlugInDefaultImpl.lo TestResult.lo TestResultCollector.lo TestRunner.lo TestSetUp.lo TestSuccessListener.lo TestSuite.lo TestSuiteBuilderContext.lo TextOutputter.lo TextTestProgressListener.lo TextTestResult.lo TextTestRunner.lo TypeInfoHelper.lo UnixDynamicLibraryManager.lo ShlDynamicLibraryManager.lo XmlDocument.lo XmlElement.lo XmlOutputter.lo XmlOutputterHook.lo Win32DynamicLibraryManager.lo 
rm -fr  .libs/libcppunit.a
ar cru .libs/libcppunit.a  AdditionalMessage.o Asserter.o BeOsDynamicLibraryManager.o BriefTestProgressListener.o CompilerOutputter.o DefaultProtector.o DynamicLibraryManager.o DynamicLibraryManagerException.o Exception.o Message.o RepeatedTest.o PlugInManager.o PlugInParameters.o Protector.o ProtectorChain.o SourceLine.o StringTools.o SynchronizedObject.o Test.o TestAssert.o TestCase.o TestCaseDecorator.o TestComposite.o TestDecorator.o TestFactoryRegistry.o TestFailure.o TestLeaf.o TestNamer.o TestPath.o TestPlugInDefaultImpl.o TestResult.o TestResultCollector.o TestRunner.o TestSetUp.o TestSuccessListener.o TestSuite.o TestSuiteBuilderContext.o TextOutputter.o TextTestProgressListener.o TextTestResult.o TextTestRunner.o TypeInfoHelper.o UnixDynamicLibraryManager.o ShlDynamicLibraryManager.o XmlDocument.o XmlElement.o XmlOutputter.o XmlOutputterHook.o Win32DynamicLibraryManager.o
ar: .libs/libcppunit.a: Invalid operation

The same tarball compiles fine on other linux systems, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[shandles]

Update... .

So I just tried to copy the dynalib files (bascially 'cp libcppunit* /usr/local/lib') from the src/cppunit/.libs dir.  This seemed to work, I can now compile and link using the typical -lcppunit and the tests execute as expected!   Man that was a big waste of time!!

Good luck.

[Sotiris]

Hi shandles,

   I'm having a tough time trying to figure out how to install cppunit.  I'm also a little bit of a OS X / unix newb as well. 

I read through the INSTALL file and followed the instructions.  When I get to Make Install I get the following error. 

/Users/smitropa/Projects/cppunit/cppunit> make install
Making install in src
Making install in cppunit
/bin/sh ../../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib
../../config/mkinstalldirs: ../../config/mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 127
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

You seemed to have figured out the problem but I am confused as to how you solved it.

I ran sudo cp libcppunit* /usr/local/lib/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.