Re: Configure woes; sed's unhappy

Posted by Johann Hibschman-2 on May 06, 2002; 10:55pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Configure-woes-sed-s-unhappy-tp2028p2030.html

On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 10:02  AM, Luigi Ballabio wrote:

> Johann,
>         sorry for the delay. I don't really know what's going on here,
> but could it be a line-ending problem (i.e., the old \r vs \n thing)?

No problem, I figured it out.  It wasn't line endings; OS X prefers \n.

> I think that I've seen it suggested somewhere to dump the tar
> executable which comes with MacOS X and rebuild it from the latest gnu
> sources.

Nor was it tar.  I think tar is fine; you just can't trust the version
of StuffIt that comes with OS X.  It truncates filenames in tarfiles to
32 characters.

What fixed it, finally, was installing the latest GNU versions of
autoconf, automake, and libtool, running bootstrap, and then
re-configuring.  It's compiling happily as I type.

OS X does have a very old version of g++, so I'm a little worried about
the compilation process, but it seems happy so far.  I'll let the list
know if something doesn't work.

Thanks,

--Johann