Re: gEDA-user: Mac OS X 10.4: GNU MP required by guile-1.8.1 ..

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Peters wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to build the latest gEDA code from the git repository on  
> my Intel OS X box, and I don't have guile-1.8 installed.  So I  
> downloaded the sources for guile-1.8.1 and did the usual ./configure,  
> which failed because it could not find GNU MP.
> 
> So I grabbed the sources for GMP from GNU, did the ./configure, which  
> succeeded, then did a make, which also succeeded, then finally did  
> the recommended make check, which failed.
> 
> Further checking on the GMP page (http://gmplib.org) shows a Status  
> from 04 May 2006: "GMP does not build on MacInteltosh machines.  No  
> fix planned for GMP 4.x."

that sucks.


> Oh, great.  So I can't build guile because I can't trust GMP.  So  
> nobody uses guile on Intel Macs?  Is there a workaround??

I'd take a look at NetBSD's pkgsrc.  It runs on darwin.  Even if you 
don't use pkgsrc, its a reasonable place to look for patches. 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/gmp/README.html

Looking in there it seems you might be able to build on intel macs if 
you set MPN_PATH="generic" in your configure environment.

As far as guile, there are a handful of patches I needed to get it 
going.  Not sure how many may or may not affect darwin.

-Dan


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