Thanks, Peter. I'm sorry to learn you reproduced the issue. I'll keep
poking on my end as time permits. I have not dug into how the GNU build
system really works, so my progress will probably not be fast. /John
On 3/18/21 10:52 PM, Peter Teeson wrote:
P.S. Gandalf:~ pteeson$ ls -al /usr/X11
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 9 Jul 2020 /usr/X11 -> /opt/X11
Gandalf:~ pteeson$ ls -al /opt/X11
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 288 27 Sep 2016 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 26 Sep 2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x 128 root wheel 4096 9 Jul 2020 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 29 Oct 2016 etc
drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 608 9 Jul 2020 include
drwxr-xr-x 204 root wheel 6528 9 Jul 2020 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 26 Oct 2016 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 448 27 Sep 2016 share
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 27 Sep 2016 var
On Mar 18, 2021, at 10:32 PM, Peter Teeson <peter.tee...@me.com
<mailto:peter.tee...@me.com>> wrote:
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
<mailto: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
* 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
