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Compiling ECL 11.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

I have been trying to build ECL under OS X 10.7 and I have been running into trouble. When I try building it I end up getting a segfault on the ecl_min stage.

I configure with the following line:

./configure --build=x86_64 --target=x86_64 --prefix=`pwd`/install_ecl
CC=/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2

And the compile fails with:

if [ -f CROSS-COMPILER ]; then \
    ./CROSS-COMPILER compile; \
else \
    ECLDIR=`pwd`/ ./ecl_min compile; \
fi
/bin/sh: line 1: 17433 Segmentation fault: 11  ECLDIR=`pwd`/ ./ecl_min compile

I have tried building gmp and boehm-gc externally and not using the included ones, but unfortunately it ended up with the same results. I have also tried the default llvm-gcc without much luck either.

Has anyone been able to compile ECL under Lion, and if so, what configure options / patches did you need to apply.

Update: I was able to compile thanks to the accepted answer below. Here is the scripts that I used (Note: This is from a fresh git clone of ECL):

#!/bin/sh

ECL_INSTALLDIR="`pwd`/install_ecl"
mkdir -p $ECL_INSTALLDIR

./configure\
     --prefix=$ECL_INSTALLDIR\
     --enable-boehm\
     --enable-unicode=no\
     CC=/Developer/usr/bin/gcc\
     CXX=/Developer/usr/bin/g++\
     CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
     LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"

make && make install
Solution

  • This page describes the two causes of the problem (an issue with the compiler, and an issue with garbage collector compatibility), and offers a temporary solution until the issue itself is fixed. The instructions come down to:

    1. Download a new build of the Boehm-Weiser garbage collector library, apply a patch (you can get a link to download both the library and the patch from that page as well), and install it somewhere
    2. Configure ECL with these extra options:
        --enable-boehm=system
    CPPFLAGS=-I/location/for/library/include
    LDFLAGS=-L/location/for/library/lib

    Where /location/for/library is the prefix you used to install the garbage collector.

    And then it should build properly.

    I also found this MacPorts ticket which seems to be tracking this issue; check there for future updates to see if it will be fixed.