On 10/16/2017 12:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/14/2017 12:46 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>> I'm trying to build Git on OS X 10.9. Git has a dependency on libidn2. >>> libidn2 is failing as shown below. >>> >>> I suspect its due to AR being set to 'ar'; and not Apple's 'libtool' >>> (distinct from Autool's libtool). For example, this is from one of my >>> project's makefiles: >>> >>> ifneq ($(IS_DARWIN),0) >>> AR = libtool >>> ARFLAGS = -static -o >>> CXX ?= c++ >>> endif >>> >>> Usually its not enough to just set them, ARFLAGS option '-o' means the >>> library name must immediately follow an $AR) $(ARFLAGS) sequence. >>> >>> I checked the mailing list but I did not see message(s) discussing >>> similar errors. >>> >>> Does anyone have a suggestion for the easiest path to build on OS X? >> >> Hi Jeffrey, >> >> we have an automatic build&test script for OSX on Travis-CI. >> >> We install the needed packages via homebrew. >> For a recipe look into the .travis* files and use it as a starter. > > Ah, thanks. > > This is a PowerMac G5. Its big-endian PPC64. The Homebrew folks don't > support PPC. > > I keep it around for testing PPC/PPC64, big-endian and Apple's GCC 4.01.
Puh, that is out of my scope :-) But there might be people knowing how to set it up on the gnulib mailing list [1]. Because your problem isn't libidn2-related, it's more of a general toolchain setup question. Well, not even directly gnulib related - but you might get an answer for a polite OT question. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib Regards, Tim
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