build gnucash-git woes with Mac OS, Xcode 5.1

[John Ralls]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:

> John,
> 
> Bad news...  This is an XCode/gcc/lang feature/bug with guile.  I'll bet if you clean and rebuild your guile directory with 5.1 that it will choke (save a copy first).  
> 
> I removed Xcode 5.1 (using AppZapper) and reinstalled 5.0.2.  Then I fired up "jhbuild build" and guile flew past its previous hang point, happy as clam.  The info for Xcode 5.1 is:
> 
> Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
> Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.38) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
> Thread model: posix
> 
> The info for Xcode 5.0.2 is:
> 
> Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
> Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
> Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
> Thread model: posix
> 
> I'm going to do a jhbuild clean and recompile everything tonight so that I am using the same compiler version throughout.

Thanks for troubleshooting. I've got lots of compilers, and I use the real gcc-4.2 from Xcode3.2 for releases, so I'm not overly worried.

Did you try turning off optimization before you nuked 5.1?

Regards,
John Ralls