[OS X TeX] Optimal Solution for an asymptotemk engine

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Am 12.04.2010 um 14:51 schrieb Martin Costabel:
>>> Now looking at today's asy version 1.92, which doesn't want to build on MacOSX 10.5...
>> Some hints or details? I can easily make it compile (with GCC 4.0 and 4.2 and LLVM-GCC 4.2 with -O0) or not compile (with LLVM-GCC 4.2 and some optimisation or an LDFLAG like -dead-strip, in gc-7.1)...
> 
> I have now a Fink package for asymptote 1.92 that builds both on 10.5 and 10.6.
> 
> On 10.5, it did not build, because asymptote-1.92, contrary to 1.91, includes <tr1/unordered_map>. The version of this that comes from c++-4.0.1 is apparently either incompatible with gc or just broken. It spits out long and incomprehensible error messages of the type
> 
>> g++ -Wall -ansi -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DUSEGC  -I/sw/include -Os  -I . -I/sw/include/gc -I/usr/include/gc -o settings.o -c settings.cc
>> /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/tr1/hashtable: In copy constructor 'std::tr1::hashtable<Key, Value, Allocator, ExtractKey, Equal, H1, H2, H, RehashPolicy, cache_hash_code, mutable_iterators, unique_keys>::hashtable(const std::tr1::hashtable<Key, Value, Allocator, ExtractKey, Equal, H1, H2, H, RehashPolicy, cache_hash_code, mutable_iterators, unique_keys>&) [with Key = trans::venv::key, Value = std::pair<const trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*>, Allocator = gc_allocator<std::pair<trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*> >, ExtractKey = Internal::extract1st<std::pair<const trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*> >, Equal = trans::venv::keyeq, H1 = trans::venv::keyhash, H2 = Internal::mod_range_hashing, H = Internal::default_ranged_hash, RehashPolicy = Internal::prime_rehash_policy, bool cache_hash_code = false, bool mutable_iterators = true, bool unique_keys = false]':
>> /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/tr1/unordered_map:110:   instantiated from here
>> /usr/include/c++/4.0.0/tr1/hashtable:1045: error: no matching function for call to 'std::tr1::hashtable<trans::venv::key, std::pair<const trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*>, gc_allocator<std::pair<trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*> >, I
>> nternal::extract1st<std::pair<const trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*> >, trans::venv::keyeq, trans::venv::keyhash, In
>> ternal::mod_range_hashing, Internal::default_ranged_hash, Internal::prime_rehash_policy, false, true, false>::m_allocate_n
>> ode(Internal::hash_node<std::pair<const trans::venv::key, trans::venv::value*>, false>*&)'
> 
> and so on.
> 
> So for 10.5, I had to patch memory.h so that it does not include <tr1/unordered_map>. On 10.6, this is not necessary.
> 
> I also patched pipestream.h so that it uses SIGINT instead of SIGQUIT and the latex crash dumps go away.
> 
> If I have more time, I will take this to the asymptote authors.
> 
> -- 
> Martin

Howdy,

Now... if a simple package and install script for the binary could be created... :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)