[bitc-dev] Compiling on FreeBSD 6.1

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 08:57 -0600, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> I downloaded the source tree for coyotos last night, and being
> particularly interested in BitC, I tried to compile it on FreeBSD.
> There were a few basic erros in libsherpa and astmaker, most of which
> boiled down to the need to add:
>  
> -I/usr/local/include
> -L/usr/local/lib
>  
> To the INC and LIB sections in the Makefile so that it could find gmp
> and the gc stuff.  A couple of other minor corrections, like removing
> the sys/statfs.h include and adding a couple others, were needed.

Why are libgc and libgmp installed in non-standard places?

Also, can you specify what include changes were needed? We may simply be
able to adopt those chagnes.
 
> I don't know if there's an easy way to do this for the whole package,
> but it would make things a bit easier for FreeBSD.   
>  
> In any case, once the build got to the section where it begins to run
> astmaker, it basically hung.  I started that process last night, and
> it's still waiting in the same place.  I believe that the line was
> something like...
>  
> xxx/BUILD/astmaker -H AST.h
>  
> Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or what I could
> do to get past it?

Not without a lot more information...


shap