[Genquire-dev] Genquire under OS X

Tue, 14 May 2002 11:58:11 -0600

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I'm sending this out just to get it into the archives so that people
having problems will find it.

The default "make" for Tk does not work under OS X.  Some tweaking is
required.  As such, Genquire must be installed by hand on a Mac.  look
at the modules.conf file in the installer package for a list of the
required CPAN modules you need to install.  Attached is a description of
how to install Tk on a Mac.

M

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Dr. Mark Wilkinson
Bioinformatics Group
National Research Council of Canada
Plant Biotechnology Institute
110 Gymnasium Place
Saskatoon, SK
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http://www.Lehigh.EDU/~sol0/Macintosh/X/ptk/

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Dr. Mark Wilkinson
Bioinformatics Group
National Research Council of Canada
Plant Biotechnology Institute
110 Gymnasium Place
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<h1 align=center>Perl/Tk and Mac OS X</h1> 

The 10.2.1 release of Mac OS X seems to have introduced a compiler optimization
bug that causes Perl/Tk to crash with bus errors and segmentation faults. The
Perl that comes with Mac OS X, 5.6.0, is compiled with -O3, and that's what
Perl/Tk uses, but we want to compile with no optimization. Many thanks to
Richard Michaud for the heads-up and helping me track this down.

So, here's the recipe for building a working Perl/Tk on Mac OS X:

<ul>
<li> Fetch and install XFree86 4.2.0 (includes XDarwin 1.1) from
<a href=http://www.xdarwin.org>http://www.xdarwin.org</a>.

<li> Apple's Perl 5.6.0 is already there, w/o threads, and hasn't
changed since Sep 2001.

<li> Install the Developer package so <i>cc</i> et.al. are available (228 MB).

<li> Install the modified dynamic loader per
<a href="dyld-tk">http://www.lehigh.edu/Macintosh/X/ptk/dyld-tk</a>.

<li> Now compile Tk800.023. The caveat: you cannot use -O3, which is the
default, determined from how Perl itself was compiled. Here's the trick as
described by Michael Doster (who made the dyld mods described above):
<pre>
Under the pTk source directory edit the file Tk/MMutil.pm.
In the subroutine cflags make the following change at the end:

 $_ .= "\nOPTIMIZE=\n";
 $_;
} # end subroutine cflags.
</pre>

If you install via CPAN and do not have access to the distribution, you can
also change Perl's master configuration file
/System/Library/Perl/darwin/Config.pm. Change the
optimizeoption from optimize='-O3' to optimize=''.

<li>Compile and install using the standard idiom: perl Makefile.PL; make test; sudo make install
</ul>

That's it. Have fun, and remember to use Tk;

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