I have been trying, albeit unsuccessfully to get GNU's Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library compiled and running under OSX. Ultimately I'd like to get Pike and then Caudium running, but they require GMP to be properly installed. I have downloaded GMP3.1.1 and came upon this in the process:

Code:
make  all-recursive
Making all in mpn
Making all in tests
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
m4 -DPIC -DOPERATION_add_n add_n.asm >tmp-add_n.s
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DOPERATION_add_n    -g tmp-add_n.s -o add_n.lo
cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -DOPERATION_add_n -g tmp-add_n.s -o add_n.o
tmp-add_n.s:38:Parameter syntax error (parameter 2)
tmp-add_n.s:39:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:40:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:41:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:42:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:44:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:45:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:46:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:47:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:49:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:50:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:51:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:52:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:55:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:56:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:57:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:58:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:60:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:61:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:62:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:63:Parameter syntax error (parameter 1)
tmp-add_n.s:66:Junk character -1 (<caron> ).
make[3]: *** [add_n.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I'm told that this means there is a problem compiling some assembly files. So I tried to do a generic install with ./configure --target=none. That actually made it through the 'make' process and it compiles fine, but it just plain doesn't work. Doing a 'make check' gives these errors:

Code:
cc -g -o t-mul t-mul.o ../../.libs/libgmp.a 
/usr/bin/ld: archive: ../../.libs/libgmp.a has no table of contents, add one with ranlib(1) (can't load from it) 
make[3]: *** [t-mul] Error 1 
make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2 
make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

Any suggestions would be helpful, I'm kind of against a wall here. I'm not sure what else to try.

thanks,

--glen


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[This message has been edited by 01000111 (edited 12-13-2000).]

[Scott_H]

I'm going to move this over to the Mac OS X Developer forum. Click through to find your post.

[Mniot]

target=none seems like a bad idea. Have you copied the config.sub and config.guess files?
If it's not compiling, you'll have to fix the problems yourself. That takes some experience in writing c/c++ libraries. If you haven't got that, you might want to give up.

Originally posted by Mniot:
target=none seems like a bad idea. Have you copied the config.sub and config.guess files?
If it's not compiling, you'll have to fix the problems yourself. That takes some experience in writing c/c++ libraries. If you haven't got that, you might want to give up.

Yeah, I thoght it seemed like a bad idea as well. 8) config.sub and config.guess are in the install directory. Where do I have to copy them to? No, I don't really have any experience writing c/c++libraries... but I do have experience with c/c++, so I'll monkey around with it and see what I can come up wih. I've got some guys here at work that are helping me with it, I just wanted to see if anyone out there had any specific experience in getting it to run on OSX.

thanks,

--glen


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