2009/9/7 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>: > As you know, we are having some problems building ECL on 64-bit OS X (on > the machine bsd.math.washington.edu).
Yes, I have seen the emails. I am trying different builds here in my laptop, since I did not ask for an account at bsd -- I thought I would not need it. > 1) Will version 9.8.4 build, or do I need to check out the CVS? 9.84 will not build in 64 bit mode because OSX wrongly reports to use a 32-bit operating system and processor (uname). This confuses the configuration process. I had to manually patch this in src/aclocal.m4 and src/configure.in > 2) Does one need to add -m64 to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS? No. Just use ./configure ... ABI=64 or export ABI=64 as an environment variable. ECL will add the right flag for OS X. Incidentally, as I told you in the other email, OS X needs -m64 _also_ when linking. Otherwise gcc will try to use 32-bits binaryes. Incidentally I just fixed another problem with our old version of GMP: it does not build in OS X when ABI=64 is used. I did not notice before this because I use a locally configured version, but I have fixed this today. It should solve the problems with the error message "Do not know how to make install". Unfortunately such a change involves also verifying that no other port broke, and for this I must wait until all automated builds have finished. Feel free to try, though. > 3) Does one need to set the ABI - and if so what to? ABI=64 for 64-bits build. Not setting it will use just the default values of the operating system -- which for Snow Leopard seem to depend on which mode the OS was booted. > I've tried a CVS checkout, and 9.8.4, with every combination of ABI and > CFLAGS I can think of, but I can't seem to generate any 64-bit > libraries. If I add the compiler option -m64 to CFLAGS, the configure > script seems to remove it. No, this should not happen. ECL is preserving _whatever_ flags you pass to CFLAGS. Juanjo -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
