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authorJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2002-01-04 15:59:57 (GMT)
committerJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2002-01-04 15:59:57 (GMT)
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Rephrased the OSX stack limit problem, after a complaint about it.
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@@ -396,9 +396,10 @@ Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
platform as well. This should be resolved in time for a
future release.
-Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails
- with a SEGV due to the small stack size used by default, if you do
- "limit stacksize 2048" before "make test" it should work.
+Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails with a segmentation
+ violation (SIGSEGV) due to the small stack size used by default,
+ if you give the command "limit stacksize 2048" before "make test"
+ it should work.
On naked Darwin you may want to add the configure option
"--disable-toolbox-glue" to disable the glue code for the Carbon
@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@ Mac OS X 10: One of the regular expression tests fails
if you add the --enable-framework option, see below.
On a clean OSX /usr/local does not exist. Do a
- "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
+ "sudo mkdir -m 775 /usr/local"
before you do a make install. Alternatively, do "sudo make install"
which installs everything as superuser.