[IRCServices] Compiling on OS X
Kelmar K. Firesun
kfiresun at ix.netcom.com
Mon May 17 18:45:57 PDT 2004
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Compiling on OS X
> >However, I have not had much luck with the ar utility playing nice.
> >I can run it by hand, but it bombs out when running make.
>
> Check the exit code of ar ("ar ... ; echo $?"), particularly with
> respect to the presence/absence of the -c option vs. the existence or
> nonexistence of the output (.a) file; it could be that the MacOS ar is
anal
> about return codes. If not, it could just be a bug in ar--in that case, I
> guess you'll need to file a bug report with Apple.
>
I'll check that out.
> >As a side note there needs to be a -fno-builtin option passed to the
> >compiler on Mac OS X so you don't get that anoying warning about the
> >builtin log function conflicting with that of the log function defined
> >within Services itself. This can be added to the second appearance
> >of the MORE_CFLAGS variable in the top level Makefile.
> >
> >e.g.:
> >MORE_CFLAGS = -g -fno-builtin -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
>
> This has been in the Makefile since forever. Are you sure you're
> using current source?
>
*boggle*
I did a fresh check out from the CVS repository......