[PPL-devel] Loading the SWI-Prolog interface of the PPL under Mac OS X

[Roberto Bagnara]

Fred Mesnard wrote:
> Le 7 oct. 07 à 17:43, Roberto Bagnara a écrit :
> 
>> Fred Mesnard wrote:
>>> Wrt PPL:
>>> - I've tried the CVS version but autoreconf failed
>>
>> can you please post a log of the failed autoreconf.
> 
> 
> PPL, CVS version:
> 
> % autoreconf
> configure.ac:291: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:292: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
> configure.ac:293: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

You don't have Libtool installed.

>>> - I've tried PPL 0.9, which did not believe I was running
>>> GMP 4.2.2 ...
>>
>> Same for this one?
> 
> No, this one has a configure, so let's run it:
> 
> ...
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld) is 
> GNU ld... no
> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> checking how to link with libgmp... -L/usr/local/lib -lgmp
> checking how to link with libgmpxx... -L/usr/local/lib -lgmpxx 
> -L/usr/local/lib -lgmp
> checking for the GMP library version 4.1.3 or above... no
> configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
> GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
> see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
> When compiling the GMP library, do not forget to enable the C++ interface:
> add --enable-cxx to the configuration options.
> 
> Although I did compile (make, make check and make install) GMP 4.2.2 
> yesterday :
> 
> /usr/local/lib fred$ ls -la *gmp*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  273331 Oct  6 08:09 libgmp.3.4.2.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      18 Oct  6 08:09 libgmp.3.dylib -> 
> libgmp.3.4.2.dylib
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  513840 Oct  6 08:09 libgmp.a
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      18 Oct  6 08:09 libgmp.dylib -> 
> libgmp.3.4.2.dylib
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     797 Oct  6 08:09 libgmp.la
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel   25971 Oct  6 08:09 libgmpxx.4.0.2.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      20 Oct  6 08:09 libgmpxx.4.dylib -> 
> libgmpxx.4.0.2.dylib
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   32536 Oct  6 08:09 libgmpxx.a
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      20 Oct  6 08:09 libgmpxx.dylib -> 
> libgmpxx.4.0.2.dylib
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     836 Oct  6 08:09 libgmpxx.la
> 
> What did I miss?

Your compiler is not searching GMP in /usr/local.
You should add

     --with-libgmpxx-prefix=/usr/local

to your configure options.
Cheers,

     Roberto

-- 
Prof. Roberto Bagnara
Computer Science Group
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it