configure problems

[jim hopper]

Thanks for the response.  i am a bit new to kaffe world if thats not 
obvious, but i maintain the mac version of the gnu adacompiler 
(gnat).  i guess i assumed i did something so stupid my previous 
description would leap out at someone.  but i did look at faq and 
archive before sending it and didnt find anything.

with ld problem i get:

checking for ld used by GCC... sed: -e expression #1, char 7: Unterminated
`s' command

for some reason it has trouble with my path 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-machten4/2.8.1/ld  as if i supply the 
path to the softlink it doesnt have any time finding it.

as to the size, i am doing a native compiler on machten using gcc 
2.8.1. thanks for the tip about config.log i had never seen that file 
before (sutupid of me i know).  what i get from it for code that 
finds the sizes is:

configure:2410: checking size of long
configure:2429: gcc -o conftest.xcoff -g -fsigned-char   conftest.c  1>&5
configure: failed program was:
#line 2419 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
if (!f) exit(1);
fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(long));
exit(0);
}

i can compile this program by hand and run it and it gives correct 
results, don't knwo why config is rejecting it.

thanks jim

> Jim,
>
>it would help if you told us what the output of configure is,
>what's in the config.log file, whether you're cross-compiling or
>not, etc., etc.
>
>If you're cross-compiling, you have to set the size of things ---
>see config/arm/linux/config.frag for an example.
>
>For ld etc., check your $path.  Set $LD if necessary.
>
>	- Godmar
>
>There's no need to cc kaffe at transvirtual.com when sending mail to
>kaffe at rufus.w3.org as these are the same lists.
>
> >
> >
> > I am trying to update the port of kaffe for machten 4.1.1 to the
> > 1.0b4 release.  having some problems with the configure script.
> >
> > 1. size of short, int, long, long long.. all come up as 0
> >
> > 2. when it checks for ld it can not find it despite fact that machten
> > uses gnu ld.  path is
> >     /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-apple-machten4/2.8.1/ld
> >
> > if i force path to be /usr/bin (which is a softlink to above 
>path) all is well.
> >
> >
> > well lets start with this.  i can kludge configure to make these come
> > out right but would like to knwo the right way to do them.
> >
> > thanks jim
> > At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the 
>participants
> > were given an awkward question to answer.  "If you had just boarded an
> > airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
> > for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
> > immediately?"
> >                      unknown author
> >
> >

At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the participants
were given an awkward question to answer.  "If you had just boarded an
airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible
for the flight control software, how many of you would disembark
immediately?"
                     unknown author