Hi John:
Same issue here…(svn 1410) on Mojave 10.14.6.
I have copied the list.
⎕PLOT ''
SYNTAX ERROR+
⎕PLOT ‘'
I searched the bug-app archives and there was a bunch of emails last summer
about missing X11.
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2020-08/msg00000.html
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-apl/2020-08/msg00000.html>> <— read
this
Never use ⎕PLOT myself. But I did find X11 in my build log:
checking for XGetXCBConnection in -lX11-xcb... no
checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
When I do locate X11 in Terminal I get this
/opt/X11
/usr/X11
So maybe that’s the issue?
Need to fix $PATH for GNU APL build??
respect
Peter
> On Mar 18, 2021, at 4:25 PM, John Helm <jh...@usa.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter -
>
> Please forgive me in advance for reaching out directly, but I fear I have a
> local problem and don't want to spam the list.
>
> I just tried your clone suggestion below and it fails for me...
>
> I built a VMware Fusion virtual machine with a clean install of Mojave 10.14.6
> Installed the XCode command line tools
> Ran: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git
> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git>
> cd trunk, followed by ./configure, make, sudo make install
> Installed the apl keyboard and tested with ⎕plot '', which returns a syntax
> error instead of the ⎕plot message.
> I have repeated this exercise with High Sierra and Catalina on physical
> machines with the same result.
>
> Also, I performed a MacPorts install on High Sierra and Catalina on physical
> machines; again, with the same result.
>
> I spend much of my time in OS X command shell (iTerm2, to be specific) and
> seldom have this much difficulty doing builds. Nonetheless, I'm okay with
> being guilty of user-error until proven innocent. In any case it seems clear
> that something big-and-basic is wrong.
>
> Would you be willing to send me the console log of one of your successful
> builds? This would let me do a diff against my build logs and possibly give
> me some clues as to what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> John
>
> On 3/7/21 9:59 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:
>> Hi Jürgen:
>>
>> As promised a brief update note.
>>
>> On a clean install of macOS Mojave 10.14.6 I confirm that using
>> git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git
>> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/apl.git> just works.
>>
>> And with the default settings the Terminal waltz builds clean.
>> And APL executes.
>>
>> My hardware is an Early 2009 Mac Pro and so far there has never been a need
>> to patch the installer from 2009 Snow Leopard 10.6 thru to 2018 Mojave 10.14.
>>
>> I did apply a patch to the firmware to make it a 5,1 from the original 4,1.
>> Will look into whether it’s reasonable to install Catalina and Bug Sur.
>>
>> respect
>>
>> Peter
