[tlbuild] asy on Macintosh

[John Bowman]

Ok, good to know. I should probably still make the switch to gc-8.0.4 in
the 2.49 release but you can override it with ./configure
--enable-gc=7.6.0, which seems to compile reliably across MacOSX platforms.

Cheers,

-- John


On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 7:03 AM Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:

> John,
>
> WARNING
>
> At Mojca's urging, I downloaded gc 8.0.4. Then I directly used .configure
> and make to build the library on the Mac. No problems.
>
> Then I added gc-8.0.4.tar.gz to the asy source in TeX Live and added a
> configure flag to use this version. The asy .configure log says it was used.
>
> When compiling, I got exactly the same C++ errors as before. Mojca seems
> to compile either using macOS 10.6 or else using MacPorts. I do not believe
> this version of gc can be used with the current code when compiled on
> current Macs (and here "current" means Sierra and beyond, so for the last
> three years). Whether gc or asy is ultimately at fault I cannot say.
>
> Richard Koch
> koch at uoregon.edu
>
> PS: To repeat last night's message, with the earlier gc and various other
> fixes, I compiled asy without errors and it seemed to pass all tests.
>
> > On Mar 29, 2019, at 5:52 AM, John Bowman <bowman at ualberta.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mojca,
> > It's good to know that there is a new gc release (and that the official
> source has moved, with a 8.0.4 released just 27 days ago) and that it
> compiles on the Mac.
> > I will make a new release with these changes later today. It will also
> include a fix to an asy bug (broken soccerball example) that needs to fixed
> across all platforms.
> > What do we do about -lgccpp? Is that still needed for some MacOSX
> platforms and if so is there a way to detect which ones?
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback,
> >
> > -- John
>
>
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