Re: [Gcl-devel] MacOS X status

[Camm Maguire]

Hi Aurelien!  Let me first thank you for the conservative nature in
which you've posted these changes.  They were a delight to merge in. 

I think all your stuff is in stable and head now.  I had a few
questions, but they were minor.  Please let me know if all is OK for
you. 

Take care,

Aurelien Chanudet <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In short, GCL and ACL2 are now working back again on Mac OS X Panther.
> 
> - BFD : I applied my patches to the local BFD tree, as Camm suggested, 
> carried out tests on a
> Debian machine (the only non OSX machine I have) to make sure the 
> modifications didn't break
> anything, and haven't noticed any breakage. Using BFD is now what I would 
> recommend for MacOS X
> (--enable-locbfd). In order to add BFD support for MacOS X, I had to modify 
> sfaslbfd.c (see patch
> in the attached file). This has previously been discussed here :
> 
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel/2003-11/msg00108.htm.
> 
> - SGC : The recent changes to sgbc.c had broken compatibility with MacOS X 
> because a segmentation
> fault raises SIGBUS on MacOS X, whereas it apparently raises SIGSEGV 
> elsewhere. AFAICT, everything
> is now working back again thanks to one of the attached patches.
> 
> - Additionally, I've modified configure.in in order to set appropriate 
> defaults for MacOS X and to
> detect DBEGIN properly.
> 
> Aurelien
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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