[mapserver-users] error building mapserver 3.6.3 on OS X 10.2

[Puneet Kishor]

as a follow-up, I found the following in the archives --

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/wilma/mapserver-users/0210/msg00011.html
by Sean Gillies...

> I'm not sure about all your errors, but I recognize
> two of them.  You do not say so, but it looks to me
> like you might be trying to compile mapserver using
> gcc 3.x.  I've never seen the errors you report
> when building with gcc 2.9.x.
>
> 1) Remove /usr/local/include from your INCLUDE_DIRS
>    so that gcc doesn't complain about it.
> 2) The error
>
>    undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
>
>    tells you that you need to link shp2img using
>    g++ rather than gcc because one of your libraries
>    has C++ code.
>
> If you're not using gcc 3.x, please disregard my
> suggestions.

looking at my errors below, this seems to be a similar problem. I _am_ 
using gcc 3.1. I have no way of reverting back to an earlier gcc 
version. Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround?

Thanks.

pk/




On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 11:46  PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

> while make-ing, the program ends with the following --
>
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> ranlib libmap.a
> ranlib: file: libmap.a(mapthread.o) has no symbols
> gcc -c -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ 
> -DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS    -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG 
> -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT        -I/usr/local/include              
> shp2img.c -o shp2img.o
> gcc -O2  -Wall -DIGNORE_MISSING_DATA  -DUSE_EPPL -DUSE_PROJ 
> -DUSE_PROJ_API_H -DUSE_WMS    -DUSE_JPEG -DUSE_GD_PNG -DUSE_GD_JPEG 
> -DUSE_GD_WBMP -DUSE_GD_FT        -I/usr/local/include              
> shp2img.o  -L. -lmap -lgd -L/usr/local/lib -lgd -ljpeg  
> -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz  -ljpeg  -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -lz -lproj 
> -ljpeg          -lm   -o shp2img
> ld: Undefined symbols:
> ___gxx_personality_v0
> make: *** [shp2img] Error 1
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> Then, make install tells me that it
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> cp -f libmap.a /usr/local/lib/
> cp -f map.h /usr/local/include/mapserver-3.5/
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>
> strange, that mapserver-3.5/ above. Needless to say, there is no map.h 
> under /usr/local/include but there is one under my mapserver-src 
> directory where I build everything. So, not knowing any better, I cp 
> map.h to /usr/local/include where all other .h files live. Then I try 
> to build perl/mapscript but, perl Makefile.pl quits with
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> perl Makefile.PL
> Unable to open perlvars, have you built the MapServer yet? at 
> Makefile.PL line 4.
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> My guess is that the initial make itself failed when shp2img croaked. 
> I went through the Makefile and it seems logical that process didn't 
> complete at all. What is going on?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Puneet.