Compiling on OSX

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 17:23 -0400, seph wrote:
> Hi all, I'm having some trouble compiling on osx (snow leopard,
> 10.6). I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> I'm using the current master, and when I run autoconf I get:
> 
> configure.ac:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>       m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
> configure.ac:15: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_SHARED
> configure.ac:17: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_SHARED
> configure.ac:18: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
> configure.ac:20: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> 
> and it results in a configure file that produces this error:
> 
> ./configure: line 1689: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
> ./configure: line 1696: syntax error near unexpected token `foreign'
> ./configure: line 1696: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign)'
> 
> Any pointers?

Do you have pkg-config, automake and libtool installed?

I'm sorry; I hate autocrap but it seemed like the easiest way to
portably build a shared library.

I did get someone to confirm that it builds on OSX before I made the
release; it ought to work.

-- 
dwmw2