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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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> 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?

Oops, one more question:

- are you planning on making Mac OS X builds?

.hc



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