Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom for Darwin? (BSD in Mac OS)

[Martin Snelgrove]

Thanks for the quick & detailed response.

I cleaned out the axiom directory completely and recharged from the 
tarfile, then set up the AXIOM and PATH vars
as per your note. I ran make with sudo, because it had been fooling 
around with stuff in /sw/bin. which is where the
Fink project puts the fake Linux stuff. I've attached the console 
output. As you say, it now gets much further. It now
blows up in axiom/int/lib/wct.c, complaining 6 times at line 301": 
error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type".

My C is lousy, but "int/lib/wct.c:299: warning: assignment makes 
pointer from integer without a cast" worried me,
and /usr/include/time.h looked to me like struct tm was just fine, 
thanks. I've also attached said /usr/include/time.h
in the hope that it will make sense to someone who knows what's going 
on.

Feel free to use me as an e-mail-driven compile engine, given that 
you're without Mac access.

        regards
                martin s.

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On Feb 13, 2005, at 21.44, root wrote:

> Martin Snelgrove,
>
> Actually you want to try telling it the truth :-)
>
> The top level level Makefile looks at the last portion of the AXIOM
> shell variable to try to set up for the target system. You told it
> you were using 'linux' but should say 'MACOSX'.
> In your case you might want to try:
>
> export AXIOM=`pwd`/mnt/MACOSX
> export PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
> make
>
> Likely this will still fail but much further along.
> There are two people on this list, Chuck Miller and Pierre Doucy,
> who are also interested in the MAC OSX port.
>
> The SIGCLD issue has to do with the C defined variable called
> PLF (in the top level Makefile.pamphlet) which has the value
> PLF=MACOSXplatform
> for a MAC OSX build. MAC OSX is a BSD system and certain
> incompatibilities arise.
>
> Please try this, save the console output, and let me (and the
> rest of the list) know how it fails. I don't have a MAC so I'm
> working blind.
>
>
> As to the configure script issue I'll add the "Darwin" string
> to try to give hints about the AXIOM variable setting.
>
> The configure script really doesn't do anything because there
> is no obvious way to set a shell variable from a shell script
> and have the change be permanent. So it just gives you advice.
>
> Tim