[Gc] Building on OS X: Autotools vs pkg-config issues

[Hans Aberg]

On 3 Mar 2012, at 08:13, Ivan Maidanski wrote:

> Is my understanding correct that you don't have problems with pre-generated configure (distributed in "release" branch and tar-balls)?

In order to work around this problem, some projects have snapshots. In the past, for example Bison, now GCC has it, which they make about once a week.

Hans


> 02 03 2012, 09:48 Bruce Mitchener <bruce.mitchener at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Bruce Mitchener
>> <bruce.mitchener at gmail.com>wrote:
...
>>> It would be really nice if Boehm could build out of the box on Mac OS X
>>> without having to install updated autotools and pkg-config.  A quick check
>>> seems to show that it could work with the version of autotools shipped on
>>> OS X, with the exception of the usage of pkg-config.