Tim, On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:31 AM you asked: > ... > why did you need gettext and sed? i've grabbed tarballs of both, > saved your instructions, and will try to follow your lead on > this. >
The gcl build needs gnu msgfmt and libintl from gettext since at least some part of gcl (binutils and debian) trys to provide localized messages. On your system you might find this in the /sw directory if you've previously installed Fink. But I wanted to avoid that. On the OSX 10.2 system I am using at SourceForge, the 'sed' editor is quite old and complained about some of the sed scripts in the gcl build, so I just locally replaced it with the new version. This might not be a problem on newer releases of OSX. (10.8 just released?) The critical thing was really the patch to o/unexmacosx.c. This part of gcl is borrowed from emacs but it is based on a version of emacs that is now quite old. I started by trying to use a newer version of unexmacosx.c from the emacs source distribution, but the gcl-specific modifications were beyond my level of understanding. In the end I opted to backport just the minimum changes that allowed the old version to compile. But I wouldn't be too surprized if this was broken again in newer releases of OSX. Have you tried downloading and running the binary that I posted in an earlier message? http://page.axiom-developer.org/gcl-2.6.8-osx10-20061017.bin Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
