[ts-gen] Compiling on an OS/X

[William Lloyd]

I know nothing about hour your code works, but wouldn;t this normally  
be a job for configure?

chaos:~ wlloyd$  uname -smp
Darwin i386 i386
chaos:~ wlloyd$

-bill

On 31-Dec-07, at 10:23 AM, R P Herrold wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, William Lloyd wrote:
>
>> XCode doesn;t seem to upgrade nicely.  Had to chop away directories
>> to get it installed.
>>
>> There is no Ruby code called that I can see by the makefile, or at
>> least up the point it's dying.
>
> Makefiles are tricky, no doubt about it; as the top of the
> file notes, we have a local copy of Mecklenburg, "GNU Make",
> O'Reilly 3rd Ed. here to try to help us through the more
> ornate parts.  there was an intriguing 'make' behaviour, in
> that failed build intermediate files were not being deleted as
> we expected them to last month, and Bill spent a couple of
> days running that down.
>
>
> The scripts [as with all scripts] (ending in .rb) are in the
> ./bin/ helper directory, invoked by this line:
>
> %.h : %.i               ;       @(bin/$(*F).rb $< > $@) || \
>  	$(call you-need-ruby, $(@F))
>
> which is making the .i prototypes (which yield the .h objects)
> as the compilation of the .c code proceeds, walking 'vpath'
> as follows:
>
> vpath   %.i src
>
> Those files are:
>
> [herrold at centos-5 bin]$ ls *.rb
> generation.rb  rdtsc_time.rb
>
> This is implicitly called in by some .h dependency when it is
> solving inet.c in the example you posted.
>
> I suspect that it you check the timestamp of cats.h and
> generation.h, they will be later than their peers, and that we
> have a unexpected case to code for on OSX/i686
>
> The test in question is this one in rdtsc_time.rb:
>
>  	uname -smp
>
> and in looking at the logic, I see that we do NOT account for
> non 'powerpc' Darwin  in:
>
>  	 def triple()
>
> Would you be so kind as to advise of the value of:
>
>  	uname -smp
>
> and I'll write a patch for it.
>
> Thanks for the report, as this will get us to additional arch
> coverage.
>
> -- Russ Herrold
>
> ps:  I am advised in IRC that it is as follows, but wish to
> confirm as to the host you (William) are building on.
>
> 10:19  orc_orc> jasonc: ping
> 10:19  orc_orc> or others -- I need on an Intel Apple, the string  
> returned by:
>                  uname -smp
> 10:20  jasonc> orc_orc: Darwin i386 i386
> 10:21  orc_orc> thank you -- building a patch atm for a ruby file
> 10:21  jasonc> wow that sounds... not fun ;)
>
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