Bill Allombert on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:26:09 +0100


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Re: Q re Mac Leopard OS


On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 02:46:59PM -0800, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> 
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 01:30 , Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:27:27AM -0700, Kurt Foster wrote:
> >>http://gmplib.org/macos.html
> >>
> >>which basically says the Xcode C compiler won't compile gmp properly.
> >>
> >>What I want to know is,
> >>
> >>(a) Is that caution out of date?
> >>
> >>(b) If not, what do I have to do to work around the problem?
> >
> >As far as I understand, you should install gcc from upstream source  
> >and
> >use it to build gmp, instead of using xcode gcc.
> 
> Really?  I build gmp without problems on Mac OS X, both 10.4.11 and  
> 10.5.2.  I am using the gcc supplied with Xcode 2.5 (build 5370) in  
> 10.4  and 3.0 (build 5465) in 10.5.
> 
> In addition, gmp builds with "native" gcc in Sage (<http:// 
> www.sagemath.org>) on these systems.  The Sage build does apply a  
> couple of patches (Mac OS X 10.5 and some versions of Linux, and for  
> some processors), but when I build gmp stand-alone, I just  
> "configure" and "make".

Did you run make check ?

Cheers,
Bill.