I too am having problems building an Intel gcc 4.3.1 on Mac OS X
10.5.4 on a standard iMac. There are many issues.
I grab the gmp-4.2.2 distribution, ./configure, make, and make install
it to /usr/local. Everything is great.
ISSUE #1:
I then grab the mpfr-2.3.1 distribution, ./configure it, and the ./
configure fails. It says that the ABIs do not match. config.guess in
the gmp build gives returns 'core2-apple-darwin9.4.0', while
config.guess in the mpfr build returns 'i386-apple-darwin9.4.0'.
Hmm. Well, core2 is not the same as i386, but they are in some sense
compatible. How does one fix this?
ISSUE #2:
There are a lot of places in the configure scripts where you see
rm: conftest.dSYM: is a directory
Is there an autoconf that fixes this? rm needs to be rm -rf on Mac OS
X. (Is this because of a case-insensitive file system?)
ISSUE #3:
I really wish that these extra dependencies were not there. I can
build gcc 4.2.5 without any problems, but requiring gmp and mpfr in
4.3+ with these hassles is a real pain. Why can't these be integrated
into gcc and put into gcclib so builds go smoother?
Thanks for listening.
Dan Allen
