Re: OS X and "recipe for target 'libidn2.la' failed"

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> 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.

Jeff