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Darwin/MacOS X conftest file minor cleanup problem


From: Bill Northcott
Subject: Darwin/MacOS X conftest file minor cleanup problem
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:30:44 +1100

At the end of each test compile autoconf macros endeavour to clean up the rubbish with a 'rm -f conftest.*'

The current Apple versions of gcc can build fat object files when given multiple -arch options as might be done with CFLAGS="-O2 -g - arch i386 -arch ppc" Since not long after the libtool 1.5.22 release these -arch options have been correctly handled in libtool/autoconf build systems.

However, in order to build the fat binaries, the compiler driver creates a directory conftest.dSYM to hold the intermediate object files before they are combined with lipo. The standard cleanup command does not remove this directory.

To reproduce this, take any autoconf package on MacOS or Darwin. Set CFLAGS as above and run configure.

You will see lines in the log and console output like:
checking for ANSI C header files... rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
yes

I presume this just needs a 'rm -rf'  in the appropriate place.

Bill Northcott




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