On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:46:09AM -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:41:48 -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I've been extremely > > busy of late and haven't really been reading the PLT lists. > > > > I just did an "svn up" followed by "mkdir build; cd build; ../src/configure > > --prefix=$HOME/Applications/plt", only to learn that configure no longer > > supports --prefix on OS X. > > > > What's going on here? How do I do a non-in-place build? > > You should have received the following error message: > > ERROR: --prefix not allowed for a Mac OS X build, unless either > --enable-xonx is supplied (to create a Unix-style > build), or > --enable-macprefix is supplied (to allow a Mac-style > installation, even though --prefix is normally used > for Unix-style installations) > > So, you want `--enable-macprefix'. > > We disabled `--prefix' by default on Mac OS X, because it doesn't quite > produce the layout that a Unix user would expect. The `--enable-macprefix' > flag lets you use `--prefix' anyway.
Ah, I see. I did indeed get that error message, but I didn't realize that --enable-macprefix would get me what I wanted -- partly because I read the error message too quickly, and partly because I was (and am) not entirely clear on what "Mac-style installation" means. I'll give that a shot. Thanks! Richard _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
