Re: Universal binaries for Mac

[Per P. <per...@ma...>]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 17:40, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> We had similar report on OSX problems with -rc3.
> But in that case building with ./configure --with-readline=builtin
> apparently worked.  See bug report
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=1642845&group_id=2055&atid=102055
>
> Please help us figure out whether this is 1 bug, or 2 bugs, or a
> general problem with gnu libreadline on OSX, or what.
>

Hi all,
sorry for being late to the party, trying to catch up after we  
finally got back phone line last week and DSL-connection yesterday,  
after almost 8 weeks (long story involving moving and switching  
service providers... :-P ).

1) The readline issue is caused by someone at Apple having the  
"bright" idea to symlink /usr/lib/libreadline.dylib to /usr/lib/ 
libedit.dylib
(The reason for not including readline are license terms, only BSD/ 
LGPL/etc. in OS X not GPL)

However, using ./configure  --with-readline=/path/to/your/gnu/ 
libreadline should work if libreadline is installed somewhere.

2) The snapshot script: It is really crude, and currently only works  
on my machine. However, it was intended as a staring point for a tool  
to build properly packaged binary OS X releases from CVS or tarballs  
with a single command.
Besides TeX, you'll need Iceberg ( http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/ 
Iceberg.html ) for it to work.
We should fix it to build Universal Binaries too, but it'll require  
someone with an Intel Mac for testing.

I'll update my gnuplot sources now, and have a look at (1).

/Per