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From: Jeremy C. <jer...@gm...> - 2007-01-25 21:44:14
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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 |