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Topic: Help on installation of Ckit and Elixir on Mac pro (10.5.8)

Hi, Borek

This is a Mac user. I am trying to install OOFEM along with Ckit and Elixir on my Mac pro (10.5.8). But I am having a couple of problems with Ckit and Elixir.

For Ckit, I ran ./configure and make all. At the very end I received the following error:
gcc -c -I../include   -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_RANDOM=1 -DHAVE_RAND=1   -g -O  gaussP.c
rm -f libckit.a
ar rc libckit.a alistP.o hashP.o listP.o mallocP.o memoryP.o treeP.o strfn.o tokens.o getopts.o vectP.o scanlP.o skysol.o skycol.o timeP.o expeval.o gaussP.o
ranlib: file: libckit.a(mallocP.o) has no symbols
ranlib libckit.a
ranlib: file: libckit.a(mallocP.o) has no symbols

For Elixir, I ran ./configure, but seems like my mac is not recognized. I am wondering what kind of machine type I should add in config.sub.

checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Look forward to your instructions.

best,
Liangzhe

2 Reply by bp

  • bp
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Re: Help on installation of Ckit and Elixir on Mac pro (10.5.8)

Dear Liangzhe,

you can try install latest autoconf package, run "autoconf" command in Ckit and Elixir source directories and replace the configure.sub files with the new one coming with autoconf installation. This should solve the problem with platform recognition and hopefully solve the problems with build process.
You may also contact Gustel, who has recently reported a succesfull instalation on mac (see http://www.oofem.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=318).

Borek

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3 Reply by MichaelBlomkvist (edited by MichaelBlomkvist 24-11-2010 19:55:01)

  • Registered: 23-11-2010
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Re: Help on installation of Ckit and Elixir on Mac pro (10.5.8)

I actually do have the same problem than Liangzhe but the autoconf trick doesn't work... But I found the solution: .\configure --build=powerpc-apple

Best.

MB

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Re: Help on installation of Ckit and Elixir on Mac pro (10.5.8)

Hello,
I tried to install Ckit and elixir on my macbook Pro (my OS is Lion) as well but it didn't work. I tried to do the configuration as you suggested at the previous comments but it didn't work either. Any more suggestions?
Thank you very much for your help

Dimtris

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Re: Help on installation of Ckit and Elixir on Mac pro (10.5.8)

Hi, it will help, if you can provide a log from your configuration (output of configure) or log of your build process.

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