On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:17 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:
that's weird; i compile Gem on 10.5 with autoconf quite often (and it's
used with the autobuilds as well) and it works stable.
my exact call to configure (including all the user-built statically
libs) can be found here:
http://gem.iem.at/documentation/faq/how-do-you-compile-gem-on-osx
(i usually don't use xcode, so that's why the project file is not being
updated accordingly; sorry for that)
if you can post the error, i might be able to fix it.
ACT-TECH01:src cgc$ autoconf
ACT-TECH01:src cgc$ ./configure
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
./configure: line 2510: syntax error near unexpected token `PIC,'
./configure: line 2510: `GEM_ARG_ENABLE(PIC, PositionIndependentCode (potentially slower))'