Re: xlispstat for XDarwin on Mac OS X

Should be possible if someone wants to take on being the fink package
maintainer and figure out what needs to be done.  There are a few
small things that need fixing in the sources for Darwin, but I canhelp
with those.

luke

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:09:33PM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any chance of xlispstat becoming a fink
> package in the near future? It seems that like many programs for which
> there have been PC, Unix and Mac versions, the latter two versions
> tend to be moving toward a Unix version that will work on Macs. It
> would make my life easier and give the Unixness of OSX, I don't ever
> really care about Aqua support per se, since X11 works well enough for
> everything I'd ever do. I have no ideas about the feelings of others.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:09:39PM -0800, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
> > There is a new Darwin/X11R6 xlispstat compilation, using the latest 
> > dlcompat
> > and X11R6, at ftp://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub/xlispstat.tar.gz. Move to
> > /usr/local, su root, and unpack.
> > 
> > On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 05:46 AM, Luke Tierney wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:52:02AM -0500, Steven Majewski wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, kamakura wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>I would like to use xlispstat for xdarwin on Mac OS X.
> > >>>
> > >>>The version form http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/XLS/ does not 
> > >>>include
> > >>>the function dyn-load.  I need the function "dyn-load".
> > >>>
> > >>>Does anyone know the fully-functioning version for Xdarwin on Mac OS 
> > >>>X or
> > >>>the compiling techniques?
> > >>
> > >> If you get the dlcompat package from Fink 
> > >><http://fink.sourceforge.net/>
> > >>it will add a libdl emulation library to /usr/local/lib. If you do a
> > >>./configure, it will pick up the existence of that lib and build with
> > >>dynamic linking. ( I think! -- going by my frail memory... )
> > >>
> > >
> > >I think that will work if you set fink up tp put stuf in /usr/local.
> > >Mine is set up to go into /sw.  For that I think it's a bit painful at
> > >the moment. What should work is to run configure (which does pick up
> > >the X11 I have installed from fink) and then edit Makefile to give
> > >
> > >	UCFLAGS=-I/sw/include
> > >	ULDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib
> > >
> > >and edit xlconfig.h to have
> > >
> > >#define HAVE_DLOPEN 1
> > >
> > >Then make.  I haven't tried this but think it should work.  There may
> > >be an easier way.
> > >
> > >Hopefully I'll get around to modifying the configure script to handle
> > >this more sensibly before too long.
> > >
> > >luke
> > >
> > >> The other configure glitch I recall is that I had to replace the
> > >>config/config.guess & config/config.sub files in the xlispstat
> > >>distribution with the versions that come with MacOSX in /usr/libexec/ .
> 
> -- 
> Josh Kuperman
> [email protected]

-- 
Luke Tierney
University of Minnesota                      Phone:           612-625-7843
School of Statistics                         Fax:             612-624-8868
313 Ford Hall, 224 Church St. S.E.           email:      [email protected]
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA                    WWW:  http://www.stat.umn.edu