[GEM-dev] OSX building: configure & make?

[james tittle]

hello,

...after upgrading to 10.4, I figured it would be nice to update the  
GEM project so that it would be more easily compiled, and this would  
mean to have xcode call an "external build system", which we already  
have in configure and make...unfortunately, right outta the gates  
configure isn't recognising the platform:

tiggity:~/puredataDev/Gem/src/gnu tigital$ ./configure --with-ftgl
creating cache ./config.cache
uname: illegal option -- -
usage: uname [-amnprsv]
uname: illegal option -- -
usage: uname [-amnprsv]
HEAD: /usr/include /usr/local/include ../../../GemLibs/
LIBS: ../../../GemLibs/ /usr/local/lib /usr/local/src
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host  
type; you must specify one
tiggity:~/puredataDev/Gem/src/gnu tigital$

...and I know little to nothing about configure scripts...so, I  
wonder if I shouldn't just make a specific "makefile.osx" and leave  
that in gem/src/gnu?  If this is done, will it be able to detect new  
files as they are added, or do we have to also go ahead and change  
the makefile for each file added?

jamie