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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-03-23 17:51:37 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-03-23 17:51:37 (GMT)
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Update Mac OS X platform notes.
This closes SF bug #406191.
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@@ -388,12 +388,16 @@ 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.
-MacOS X: You need to add the "-traditional-cpp" option to the
- compiler command line for the MacOS X Public Beta. This is
+Mac OS X: You need to add the "-traditional-cpp" option to the
+ compiler command line for the Mac OS X Public Beta. This is
appearantly a bug in the default pre-processor, and is
expected not to be a problem with future versions. Run
- configure with "OPT=-traditional-cpp ./configure" to add this
- option.
+ configure with "OPT='-g -traditional-cpp' ./configure
+ --with-suffix=.exe --with-dyld" to add this
+ option. One of the regular expression tests fails due to the
+ small stack size used by default (how to change this?), and
+ the test_largefile test is only expected to work on a Unix UFS
+ filesystem (how to check for this on Mac OS X?).
Configuring threads