Re: Universal binaries for Mac

[Jeremy C. <jer...@gm...>]

On 1/25/07, Per Persson <per...@ma...> wrote:
>
> 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 have an Intel Mac and am willing to test.  What should I do?

Jeremy