From bug-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 14 11:17:27 2006
Subject: Problem on case-sensitive Darwin
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo dot fr>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:17:15 -0500

On 14-Jan-2006, Martin Costabel wrote:

| While most Mac users run their Mac OS X on case-insensitive HFS+, there 
| are some that use UFS or case-sensitive HFS+. Octave builds for them, 
| but doesn't work, because the module-loading mechanism is broken.
| (See the message 
| http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg21549.html 
| and its thread for the bug-hunt story).
| 
| The reason is the line
| 
|    AC_CHECK_HEADER(Mach-O/dyld.h)
| 
| in configure.in. It has been there for three years, but the header file 
| is actually called
| 
|    /usr/include/mach-o/dyld.h
| 
| Two years ago, the related line in liboctave/oct-shlib.cc
| 
|    #include <Mach-O/dyld.h>
| 
| was corrected to
| 
|    #include <mach-o/dyld.h>
| 
| The line in configure.in should be corrected in the same way.

I made this change.

Thanks,

jwe



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