Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > 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 >
I was pretty convinced some flags were not preserved. I will double check this. I don't have time now, as the power is going off to the house in half an hour, so I wont get much done. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
