I don't have a whole lot to report yet, but I thought I'd pass on what little
I've gleaned from the background noise. Most of this is of general import. I
haven't really delved into the Sage build issues yet.
It appears that the installation of 10.7 does remove references to the tool
chain from the usual places (/usr/bin, ...). I believe this is to make "room"
for Xcode 4, but I'm not sure.
The following works to get Xcode 3 working (assuming you have it installed
before upgrading to 10.7).
There is a full tool-chain, in good "Unix" order, in the Xcode developer tree.
I have Xcode 3 installed in /Developer-3, and under that directory is "usr",
and under that is a full complement of command-line tools (compilers,…), libs,
etc.
So the first step is to put "/path/to/Dev-usr/bin" as the first thing in your
path.
That doesn't make things work seamlessly, though. If you want to "make" a
simple executable, with no makefile, then "make exc" spits out "cc -o exc
exc.c", which doesn't fly. The include and lib directories are all set up
under the developer tree, so those defaults don't work.
You can overcome this to some extent by pointing to an explicit SDK (which will
provide the "missing" libs and includes): modify CFLAGS for the "make" command
as follows:
make CFLAGS+="-isysroot /Developer-3/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/" exc
will build the executable as dictated by the bolt-in "make" rules (or probably
the active makefile, if there is one; that could depend on the file's content).
At this point, there seem to be several options (this is generic, not directly
relevant for Sage):
1) duplicate the "install" operation for Xcode 3 and copy things into the
"/usr" tree.
2) Install Xcode 4 and try that out (I am guessing that install will set things
up so "make" just works.
3) Set up "good" makefiles for anything that doesn't have one, including macros
pointing to the proper include and lib directories.
I'd wait until a few of us have pulled the arrows out of our backs, and can
report back. I will try (3) and then (2), leaving (1) for someone truly
twisted.
For Sage, there are a couple of questions:
A) Will the Sage build just work, given only Xcode 3 installed?
B) Will Sage build as is under Xcode 4?
I'm checking this out, a little at a time.
For (A), I think the makefiles are sufficiently robust that with (maybe) a
little top-level tweaking, most of the problems go away. There are a few
potential glitches (or maybe more!): the libraries have changed, and I don't
yet know the impact of that. See below for an example.
For (B), it may be that things will work, modulo compiler issues. Apple is
moving at high-speed away from gcc, and there are odd-ball reports of bugs from
the llvm Family of Fine Compilers that might bite us. In addition, there are
API changes that are hard to quantify up from (the same holds in A).
An example: the cvxopt failure seems to come from a library glitch, but I
haven't tracked it down. The first complaint is about "_ilaenv_":
ImportError:
dlopen(/Users/Sage/sage-4.7/local/lib/python/site-packages/cvxopt/lapack.so,
2): Symbol not found: _ilaenv_
Referenced from:
/Users/Sage/sage-4.7/local/lib/python/site-packages/cvxopt/lapack.so
Expected in:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
However, this symbol *is* in that dylib, so there's something funky going on
that I have not grokked.
Comments/thoughts?
Justin
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