[q-lang-users] Good news, everyone!

[Andrew B. <and...@ya...>]

I just finished getting q 7.5 to build on Mac OS X 10.4.  I have  
XCode 2.3 installed.  This process has once again reinforced my long  
standing distaste for autoconf and automake, but at least I did not  
have to fight with libtool.

Anyhow, steps, in case anyone cares:

1) Download each of the following GNU packages, in their current  
versions:
    * m4 (1.4.7)
    * automake (1.9)
    * autoconf (2.60)
    * libiconv (1.11)
    * readline (5.2)
    * gmp (4.2.1)

2) Build and install each of them, I think in this order (but I may  
have autoconf/automake swapped).  Gmp will not build "out of the  
box", so I used the suggestion from here, which was to remove the  
"dive_1" and "modelo" x86 assembly files.  On each of them I added "-- 
prefix=$HOME/local", but that's just my preference.

3) Build and install q.  I had to tweak clib.c a little bit to make  
it compile.  Here is what Subversion has to say on that topic:


tic:~/q-7.5 andrewb$ svn diff modules/clib/clib.c
Index: modules/clib/clib.c
===================================================================
--- modules/clib/clib.c (revision 149)
+++ modules/clib/clib.c (working copy)
@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+/* Need to undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE to get AF_LOCAL defined. */
+#undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
+#endif
#include <sys/socket.h>
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_UN_H
#include <sys/un.h>
@@ -7127,6 +7131,11 @@
#undef SETPGRP_VOID
#endif
+/* This one actually does not get it wrong... */
+#if defined(__APPLE__)
+#define SETPGRP_VOID
+#endif
+
FUNCTION(clib,setpgrp,argc,argv)
{
#ifdef HAVE_SETPGRP


4) Enjoy your new q interpreter.  This is just a basic one, without  
many of the fancy extensions, but (so far) it seems to work ok.   
Fancy extensions are left as an exercise for the reader.

God bless,

-andrew