[Yhc] Problem building on Mac OS X

[Thomas Shackell]

According to the libffi docs this relates is a known bug in Mac OS X 
shell. I believe Andrew has been playing with using the ctypes libffi or 
something, perhaps that doesn't have the same problems?


Tom


Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Brent Fulgham <bfulgham at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Attempting to build with gcc 4.0 on OS X fails with the following  
>> errors.  Has anyone else successfully built on OS X?
> 
> Not yet.  The problem you encountered seems to be the case-insensitivity
> of the MacOS file system.  obj/FFI.o is overwriting obj/ffi.o.
> 
> But my build does not even get that far.  I have a couple of different
> errors, earlier in the build, when first trying to compile the libffi
> component:
> 
>     make -C libffi -f ConfigAndMake.makefile
>     ln -s libffi/config-ml.in ../config-ml.in  # HACK for broken configure
>     sh ./configure
>     checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
>     [...output of configure...]
>     make
>     make "AR_FLAGS=" "CC_FOR_BUILD=" "CFLAGS=-g -O2" "CXXFLAGS=" "CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD=" "CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=" "INSTALL=/usr/bin/install -c" "INSTALL_DATA=/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" "INSTALL_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/install -c" "INSTALL_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/install -c" "JC1FLAGS=" "LDFLAGS=" "LIBCFLAGS=" "LIBCFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=" "MAKE=make" "MAKEINFO=/bin/sh /Users/malcolm/Haskell/yhc-devel/src/runtime/libffi/missing --run makeinfo " "PICFLAG=" "PICFLAG_FOR_TARGET=" "RUNTESTFLAGS=" "SHELL=/bin/sh" "exec_prefix=/usr/local" "infodir=/usr/local/info" "libdir=/usr/local/lib" "prefix=/usr/local" "AR=ar" "AS=as" "CC=gcc" "CXX=g++" "LD=ld" "NM=" "RANLIB=ranlib" "DESTDIR=" all-recursive
>     Making all in include
>     cat: ../../gcc/BASE-VER: No such file or directory
>     make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>     Making all in testsuite
>     make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>     make[5]: execvp: /Users/malcolm/Haskell/yhc-devel/src/runtime/libffi/install-sh: Permission denied
>     make[5]: *** [src/.dirstamp] Error 127
>     make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>     make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
>     make[2]: *** [make] Error 2
>     make[1]: *** [libffi] Error 2
>     make: *** [runtime] Error 2
> 
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
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