Re: [Gtk-osx-users] [gtk-osx-users] Getting Started with WebKitGTK+

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

On Aug 1, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Chris Share <cps...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I try to build WebKit I'm getting the following error:
> 
> chris@New-MacBook~/Desktop/Programming/gtk/gtk+_test_4$ jhbuild build WebKit
> Warning: jhbuild is started from within a jhbuild session.
> *** Checking out libffi *** [1/18]
> *** Configuring libffi *** [1/18]
> ./configure --prefix /Users/chris/gtk/inst --libdir '/Users/chris/gtk/inst/lib' --disable-builddir  
> checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin13.3.0
> checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin13.3.0
> checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin13.3.0
> configure: toplevel srcdir already configured... skipping subdir build
> checking for gsed... sed
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /Users/chris/.local/bin/install-check
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... no
> checking for awk... awk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for gcc... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/Users/chris/gtk/source/atgreen-libffi-873d687':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> *** Error during phase configure of libffi: ########## Error running ./configure --prefix /Users/chris/gtk/inst --libdir '/Users/chris/gtk/inst/lib' --disable-builddir   *** [1/18]
> 
>   [1] Rerun phase configure
>   [2] Ignore error and continue to build
>   [3] Give up on module
>   [4] Start shell
>   [5] Reload configuration
>   [6] Go to phase "wipe directory and start over"
>   [7] Go to phase "clean"
>   [8] Go to phase "distclean"
> choice: 
> 
> Any idea what's going on. I'm running OSX 10.9.4.

The first line probably explains the problem, you tried to start jhbuild from inside a jhbuild shell. That seldom works out well.

That aside, no, there's not enough information there; that's why configure told you to "See `config.log' for more details". Once you get the pretty GUI out of the way, OS X is just BSD Unix, so pretty much everything you know about Linux applies.

Regards,
John Ralls