<div>Gentlemen,</div>
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<div>Thanks. It is the fact that I don't have XCode installed on this computer (a temporary one whilst my regular machine is out for repair). Gary's suggestion for a reminder is a good one and would have lead me to the answer straight away.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div> - Steve</div>
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Quoting Gary Byers <gb@clozure.com>:<br /> <br />
> If 'make' (installed as part of Xcode on OSX) was installed but<br />
> running make generated errors, we'd almost certainly have seen some<br />
> output describing what those errors were, so it's pretty likely that<br />
> trying to run make just failed. About all that we can say in that<br />
> case is something like "trying to run 'make' via RUN-PROGRAM failed",<br />
> but we just get a pretty generic "system error" that doesn't say too<br />
> much about what the problem is.<br />
><br />
> Since a couple of people have run into this in the last few weeks,<br />
> it's probably worth at least trying to say "trying to run 'make'<br />
> ... failed for some reason", and may be worth mentioning that that may<br />
> be because 'make' (and possibly other developer tools) aren't<br />
> installed.<br />
><br />
> I'm sure that most people realize (if they think about it) that it's<br />
> pretty hard to compile C and assembler source code if the tools used<br />
> to do so aren't installed; I'm not sure that we can reliably do too<br />
> much more here (if the (RUN-PROGRAM "make" ...) just fails) besides<br />
> suggesting the possibility that it may be an installation problem (and<br />
> perhaps help people to think about that.)<br />
><br />
> On Fri, 1 May 2009, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:<br />
><br />
>><br />
>> On May 1, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Steve Núñez wrote:<br />
>><br />
>>> Thanks. A fresh tarball download has solved the Cocoa problem<br />
>>> however this same fresh checkout fails a full rebuild. The pre-built<br />
>>> IDE runs fine, I'm trying to work through the Cocoa GUI examples.<br />
>>> This is running 10.4.11:<br />
>>><br />
>>> administrators-ibook-g4:~/Illation/Development/Applications/ccl admin<br />
>>> $ ./dppccl<br />
>>> Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.3-r11936 (DarwinPPC32)!<br />
>>> ? (rebuild-ccl :full t)<br />
>>> Rebuilding Clozure Common Lisp using Version 1.3-r11936 (DarwinPPC32)<br />
>>> ;Building lisp-kernel ...<br />
>>>> Error: Error(s) during kernel compilation.<br />
>><br />
>> To see what the errors are, cd to ccl/lisp-kernel/darwinppc and type<br />
>> "make".<br />
>><br />
>> I hesitate to mention it, but note that you need to have the Xcode<br />
>> tools installed in order to build the lisp kernel. I believe that<br />
>> Xcode 2.5 is the recommended version for 10.4 systems. (That's what<br />
>> I've got installed on my Tiger/ppc32 system anyway.)<br />
>><br />
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