compiling mlvm: error rebuilding libjava.dylib

[Stephen Bannasch]

>On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 10:32 -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>> >I've never seen this error.  What happens when you try to print the
>> >archive contents manually (with: ar t <archive>)?
>>
>> $ ar -t java/src/bsd-port/build/bsd-i586/tmp/java/fdlibm/obj/libfdlibm.i586.a
>> k_standard.o
>> k_rem_pio2.o
>> k_cos.o
>> ...
>
>Search machines suggest to run ranlib(1) on the archive.  You should
>probably ask on bsd-port-dev, people there should know more about Mac OS
>X build problems.  Sorry.

Thanks for that tip Christian.

ar was not building the catalog file for the archive because the environmental variable
COMMAND_MODE was set to 'legacy'.

This occurred because I recently switched from the Mac OS X Terminal program to iTerm because of iTerms much better handling ofcolored and styled fonts.

Without another action COMMAND_MODElagacy when starting up a console shell on Mac OS X using iTerm.

I think most people use Terminal.app in Mac OS X so aren't affected by this problem.

In any case I updated my build script here: http://gist.github.com/243072

To change the COMMAND_MODE to unix2003 if it is set to legacy

references:
http://old.nabble.com/Why-ar-doesn't-call-ranlib-on-Mac--td22319721.html