[Bug-gsl] Building on imac core duo

[Thomas Counsell]

Hello

I've just failed to build gsl-1.7 on my imac core duo.

Thanks

Tom

Tail of output from make:

mv -f .libs/env.lo env.lo
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. - 
I..    -g -O2 -c -o fp.lo fp.c
rm -f .libs/fp.lo
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -g -O2 -c fp.c  -fno-common - 
DPIC -o .libs/fp.lo
fp-darwin.c: In function 'gsl_ieee_set_mode':
/usr/include/architecture/ppc/fp_regs.h:132: error: output constraint  
0 must specify a single register
fp-darwin.c:95: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make[2]: *** [fp.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Full output of configure:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of  
Makefiles... no
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin8.5.1
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin8.5.1
checking for gcc... gcc
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 gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ar... ar
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... file_magic Mach-O  
dynamically linked shared library
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -p output... ok
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fno-common
checking if gcc PIC flag -fno-common works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared  
libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin8.5.1 dyld
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
creating libtool
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working volatile... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for extern inline... yes
checking ieeefp.h usability... no
checking ieeefp.h presence... no
checking for ieeefp.h... no
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for memmove... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE... yes
checking for cos in -lm... yes
checking whether feenableexcept is declared... no
checking whether fesettrapenable is declared... no
checking whether hypot is declared... yes
checking whether expm1 is declared... yes
checking whether acosh is declared... yes
checking whether asinh is declared... yes
checking whether atanh is declared... yes
checking whether ldexp is declared... yes
checking whether frexp is declared... yes
checking whether isinf is declared... yes
checking whether finite is declared... yes
checking whether isfinite is declared... yes
checking whether isnan is declared... yes
checking whether log1p is declared... yes
checking for long double stdio... yes
checking for extended floating point registers... yes
checking for IEEE arithmetic interface type... darwin
checking for IEEE compiler flags... none
checking for IEEE comparisons... yes
checking for IEEE denormalized values... yes
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