Re: [Matlisp-users] Matlisp on OS X

[Raymond T. <to...@rt...>]

>>>>> "Chris" == junk2  <ju...@mi...> writes:

    Chris> 1. I was using one of the Matlisp releases. I've now checked the latest
    Chris> version of Matlisp out of CVS.

Good.

    Chris> 2. One of the problems I found was regarding the config.sub and
    Chris> config.guess files. Apple provides version of these files so porting is
    Chris> easier (see:
    Chris> developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/GettingStarted/PortingUNIX/compiling/chapter_3_section_8.html).
    Chris> So I did:

I'll take a look at this and see if we can use these instead for the
other supported platforms.

    Chris> 3. Trying to do the aclocal, autoconf, automake sequence, I got complains
    Chris> about missing AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, ./aclocal.m4, ./mkinstalldirs and
    Chris> ./missing. I copied aclocal.m4, mkinstalldirs and missing from a C++

We don't use aclocal or automake.  Running autoconf should be enough.
I don't know what will happen if you run aclocal and automake.

    Chris> [snip]
    Chris> Apple Computer, Inc. GCC version 1175, based on gcc version 3.1 20020420
    Chris> (prerel
    Chris> ease)
    Chris> configure:1819: $? = 0
    Chris> configure:1821: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
    Chris> gcc: argument to `-V' is missing
    Chris> configure:1824: $? = 1
    Chris> configure:1848: checking for C compiler default output
    Chris> configure:1851: gcc -c -O2   conftest.c  >&5
    Chris> configure:1854: $? = 0
    Chris> configure:1900: result: b.out
    Chris> configure:1905: checking whether the C compiler works
    Chris> configure:1911: ./b.out
    Chris> ./configure: ./b.out: No such file or directory

Can you figure this out?  Does the compiler really put the executable
in b.out instead of a.out?

Ray