[GEM-dev] getting latest Gem into Pd-extended

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:09 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-10-18 21:47, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> Hey IOhannes,
>>
>> I would like to include the latest version of Gem in Pd-extended  
>> 0.43.
>> It currently needs a little work.  It builds on GNU/linux, but  
>> gives a
>> missing symbol (something like _sync_foo_bar).
>
> it builds on "GNU/linux" without the missing symbols as well, else i
> coulldn't use it myself :-)
> i assume that this is on some ubuntu flavour (which one), with a  
> certain
> compiler version (which one) and some special C(XX)FLAGS.
>
> according to the internet, adding something like "-march=i486" to the
> C(XX)FLAGS should help.

I think that one might be might fault.  I made it so it set CFLAGS for  
Gem in externals/Makefile.  I removed that, but haven't tested it  
again yet.


>> It doesn't build on Mac
>> OS X 10.5.
>
> what does "latest Gem" mean here?
> the git version (which is indeed the 'latest') of Gem has the issue  
> fixed.
> the 'svn' version (both trunk and branch/0.93) and the releases have  
> it
> not fixed (yet).
>
> if you want/must stick to the current release (which is fair enough)  
> or
> svn, a very simple workaround would be to add /sw/bin to the beginning
> of the PATH before calling Gem's autogen.sh


I am waiting on definitive answers on two questions, until then, I'm  
sticking to the  current setup.

- are you dropping support for the Gem SVN?

- are you dropping support for building on Mac OS X 10.5 without Fink?

.hc

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