compiling mlvm: error rebuilding libjava.dylib

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:09 -0500, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> >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

Cool you actually found out what the problem was.  -- Christian