[ts-gen] Compiling on an OS/X

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, William Lloyd wrote:

> I know nothing about how your code works, but wouldn't this 
> normally be a job for configure?
>
> chaos:~ wlloyd$  uname -smp
> Darwin i386 i386
> chaos:~ wlloyd$

Got it -- thanks; the patch previously sent should suffice on 
that unit.


More generally: Absolutely that one road to a solution may be 
with the auto* tools -- but the needs of a Makefile still need 
to be articulated, and we have never laid hands on a 
Darwin/i386 to know what the proper answers were before you 
appeared.  :)

It turns out that the time calibration code is VERY processor 
hardware dependent, and that the code in question is 
challenging to find in a proper reusable FOSS context 
(basically, it is not an often encountered problemspace); 
the project succeeded with this with some original effort.

It is not clear what the 'correct' and general autoconf (and 
thus: ./configure) answer is yet to us.  While a conversion to 
auto* is useful, the tweaks needed are so minimal that we had 
not treated this as a high priority;  if an auto* maven 
appeared and drilled it in, we'd be thrilled.

Again, thanks for the confirmation.

-- Russ Herrold