Re: [Plplot-general] plplot and mac os x

[Koen v. d. D. <kvd...@ea...>]

On Dec 26, 2003, at 1:12 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> BTW, you could help us out a lot (assuming you have MacOS X 10.3) to 
> try the
> latest cvs snapshot version Rafael just announced.  We need 
> confirmation of
> a report from one user that he could not even configure the cvs 
> version of
> Plplot with 10.3.  Please use an install tree (e.g.,
> --prefix=/tmp/plplot_cvs) completely independent of your 5.2.1 install
> tree/.  You will have to put $prefix/bin first on your path so that 
> e.g.,
>
> which plplot_libtool
>
> gives you the correct version from your cvs snapshot plplot build and 
> install.
>

I've seen that problem too, even with today's snapshot. Here's the 
output:

[RubyTuesday:~/Desktop/plplot-5.2.1.cvs.20031226] koen% ./configure 
--prefix=/tmp/plplot_cvs --disable-dyndrivers
No defaults file found, performing full configure.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... no
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for non-GNU ld... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
[RubyTuesday:~/Desktop/plplot-5.2.1.cvs.20031226] koen%



It goes away if I remove the "--disable-dyndrivers" argument. Then the 
output looks like this:


[RubyTuesday:~/Desktop/plplot-5.2.1.cvs.20031226] koen% ./configure 
--prefix=/tmp/plplot_cvs
No defaults file found, performing full configure.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for lt_dlinit in -lltdl... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
...

I am using 10.3.2.


- Koen.