[Xastir] Problem building 1.1 under Mac OS X...

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Ray Rischpater wrote:

> So, I suspect this is something stupid, but I'm having a heck of a time
> building --- actually just running ./configure --- on Mac OS X 10.2.
>
> I've got the Apple developer tools installed, and in running
> ./configure, it tells me it can't find gcc (OK, because Apple renames
> gcc to cc), and that cc doesn't create executables. We all know this to
> be patently untrue; I've been using the box for a UNIX-based development
> system since 10.0, with regular updates to the Apple developer SDK
> stuff.

Have you tried either of these two methods:

    alias gcc=cc

    ln -s cc gcc


> Anybody else seen this? I'm not very skilled with autoconf, so I'm a
> little intimidated about messing around with it directly to figure out
> what's going on.

You shouldn't have to!  Perhaps one of the OSX guys on here will
help you out.  I'm not one of them.

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