Don't panic. Brad has a build that works. He's not going to rebuild
everything from scratch. He got oracdr running on it last night.
Get your poster done. Stop worrying about the OSX ADASS build. It's all
under control.
Tim
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Norman Gray wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The OSX build is not going well. I'm running into a variety of
> problems, which are proving more of a barrier than I expected. I'm
> having to make changes to automake, and I'm very nervous of doing so
> and breaking things on other platforms.
>
> Thus I've moved my checkout to the branch DEV-nxg-20041021-mac-hacks,
> so any changes I make there should be isolated. Al and Brad, you're
> welcome to check this out, but please don't commit anything there or
> else my brain will run out through my ears.
>
> I'm currently stuck on ccdpack, which is showing the _f__xargv problem.
> Very bizarre -- it doesn't appear to be actually defined anywhere! I
> have proved to myself that Fortran cannot possibly work on the Mac, and
> all evidence of it having done so in the past is a product of my
> diseased imagination.
>
> I've also discovered (building dipso) that libsnx and libncar appear to
> define many of the same symbols. While the Linux linker must have been
> happy enough with this, the OSX linker gets very cross indeed, and says
> many rude things. That's also made me realise that an earlier fix I've
> committed was wrong, but in a way which is probably harmless on other
> platforms; hence rather precarious automake changes. If, however, you
> see problems with routines dummy_fortran or dummy_c, then look in the
> corresponding module's Makefile.am, and remove the dummy file declared
> in the _SOURCES variable (don't ask). I'll end up removing these when
> I merge this Mac branch back on to the trunk.
>
> Since I also have to start my ADASS poster, I'm not optimistic about
> getting the whole thing working before I set off on Saturday. I'll do
> my best, though.
>
> See you,
>
> Norman
>
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Norman Gray : Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, UK
> http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ : www.starlink.ac.uk
>
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
|