Mac OSX. Where can I download glibtool? - macos

I am trying to setup watchman for the mac. As stated on the website, I need to install glibtool.
Can anyone provide a link to where I can download glibtool?
I need to be able to download it from its source and the only solution I can find is by using brew.
I do not want to use brew.
Thank you.

glibtool is "GNU Libtool". It is typically installed as libtool on most systems, but because macOS has its own libtool that has completely different functionality, it is usually installed as glibtool on macOS.
If you can't directly use homebrew to install it, you can duplicate the steps in its recipe, which you can find here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/libtool.rb
For the sake of keeping this answer "working" even if homebrew goes away, the homepage for libtool is https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ and you can follow the instructions there for information on how to build and install it.

I've covered similar issues to Wez's answer from a MacPorts perspective; I'll go ahead and assume you can't use that either.
The latest stable version at this time is 2.4.6. Typical best practice is to make a directory, e.g., build in the top level of the source. Add the prefix: g, with --program-prefix=g, the top level installation directory --prefix=PREFIX, or specify more fine-grained installation directories options for bin, include, lib, and share directories.
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure --prefix=/my/install/path --program-prefix=g
> make; make install
You now have glibtool and glibtoolize in $PREFIX/bin.

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How to build a package from source?

I'm working on a Windows 7 computer at work and want to use the libpostal package. Unfortunately, it's apparently not available for Windows, so I'm trying to configure it through Cygwin and I'm SO close. The last step is to install snappy from Google. Again, not available on Windows...
My assumption (based on nothing) is that I can just download the tarball and build it from source, right? I tried that, and I think it worked? But a) I don't know how to tell, and b) if it did, I don't know how to tell ./configure in libpostal to find it.
In order to build it from source, I downloaded the tarball and saved it in the folder that Cygwin reads as my home, which is C:\cygwin64\home\brittenb\. From there, I ran bash autogen.sh, which created the ./configure that I needed. So I ran that and while some responses to the checks were no, it seemed to run fine. I then ran make and make install. Nothing seemed out of place, so my assumption is that it did what it was supposed to do. I just have no idea where to go from here.
Here is the output from ls after I run everything:
aclocal.m4 snappy.cc
AUTHORS snappy.h
autogen.sh snappy.lo
autom4te.cache snappy.o
ChangeLog snappy.pc
compile snappy.pc.in
config.guess snappy_unittest.cc
config.h snappy_unittest.exe
config.h.in snappy_unittest-snappy_unittest.o
config.log snappy_unittest-snappy-test.o
config.status snappy-c.cc
config.sub snappy-c.h
configure snappy-c.lo
configure.ac snappy-c.o
COPYING snappy-internal.h
depcomp snappy-sinksource.cc
format_description.txt snappy-sinksource.h
framing_format.txt snappy-sinksource.lo
INSTALL snappy-sinksource.o
install-sh snappy-stubs-internal.cc
libsnappy.la snappy-stubs-internal.h
libtool snappy-stubs-internal.lo
ltmain.sh snappy-stubs-internal.o
m4 snappy-stubs-public.h
Makefile snappy-stubs-public.h.in
Makefile.am snappy-test.cc
Makefile.in snappy-test.h
missing stamp-h1
NEWS testdata
README test-driver
ls /usr/local/bin shows nothing, but ls /usr/local/include shows:
snappy.h snappy-c.h snappy-sinksource.h snappy-stubs-public.h
So... my question: did it work? Why does ./configure in libpostal say it can't find snappy? Thanks in advance.
The snappy dependency has been removed as of release 1.0.0. I made changes to the source and make and config so that it will build on MinGW.
Get it in my repository:
https://github.com/BenK10/libpostal_windows
Note that this is not the complete source since not everything had to be changed. I would suggest merging my changes with the official libpostal distribution to make sure you've got everything. Also, there are some extra DLLEXPORTs in some source files that I haven't removed yet, and the part in the Makefile that builds the executables like address_parser.exe was removed because some porting is necessary to build those programs on Windows. You can write your own using the DLL you'll get in the Windows build and the original source as a reference.
Check the return code from make install ($?). If it is zero, make install succeeded.
snappy looks like a library, so maybe it doesn't install anything in /usr/local/bin. The library is probably installed into /usr/local/lib.

Go lang: how to install libxml2/gokogiri on windows

If there a relatively simple way to make go + libxml2 + gokogiri work on windows?
I mean that I may be can install it (but at the moment I can not, stuck with Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path), but then I need to provide my utilite to other people, who will never be able (or would wish ) to install lall libxml2 dependencies, modify PATH etc on windows...
It work flawless on Ubuntu...
I found this https://github.com/moovweb/gokogiri/issues/49 thats funny with installation of Gimp 2 (what?!), but I still cannot make it run with such error, I guess might be issue with PATH, but all PATH are set
$ go get github.com/moovweb/gokogiri
# github.com/moovweb/gokogiri/help
Documents\go\src\github.com\moovweb\gokogiri\help\help.go:6:25: fatal error: lib
xml/tree.h: No such file or directory
#include <libxml/tree.h>
^
compilation terminated.
# github.com/moovweb/gokogiri/xpath
Documents\go\src\github.com\moovweb\gokogiri\xpath\expression.go:4:26: fatal err
or: libxml/xpath.h: No such file or directory
#include <libxml/xpath.h>
^
compilation terminated.
You are struggling because it is hard to combine packages that were built by different people for different purposes and get your environment set up correctly. I think it is best to use MSYS2, an environment for Windows that provides a consistent set of packages for things like gcc, go, libxml2, and iconv. MSYS2 has a package manager (pacman) that helps you easily install them and keep them updated.
I don't do much programming with Go, but I am familiar with MSYS2 and it seems like I was able to get gokogiri installed using MSYS2. You should open MSYS2's "MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell" from the Start menu (mingw64_shell.bat), and try running these commands:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-{gcc,go,libxml2,iconv}
export GOROOT=/mingw64/
export GOPATH=/c/Users/David/Documents/goproj/
mkdir -p $GOPATH
go get github.com/moovweb/gokogiri
I think GOPATH should be set to the directory of your project. If you run into an error, it might be because some pacman package is required that I didn't list here.
The string mingw-w64-x86_64-{gcc,go,libxml2,iconv} gets expanded by Bash into the following list of packages:
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
mingw-w64-x86_64-go
mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2
mingw-w64-x86_64-iconv
If you are actually using 32-bit Windows, replace x86_64 with i686 in the instructions above.
If you are curious, the scripts for building those packages are here: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
As a disclaimer, I haven't actually compiled any go programs in MSYS2, so there could be big problems I am unaware of.
Also, one of the main developers of MSYS2 (alexpux) said this in the #msys2 IRC chat on 2015-06-21:
We not build go for a long time.
This package in very WIP state
Also see
https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/issues/421
So you might need to fix some issues with the MSYS2 Go package and recompile it yourself to really make this work. But you have the PKGBUILD script that was used to build it, so maybe that will be less hard than what you are trying to do right now, which involves compiling/collecting every dependency of gokogiri.
MSYS2 would make your other installation of go, libxml2, and iconv obsolete. You can delete those things once you get your MSYS2 environment working.
If you are using visual studio and want to add dependency to your project then just install it using NuGet Package Manager it's easiest method.
Install command: Install-Package libxml2

Building libzmq with libsodium

Edit as of ZMQ version 4.1:
Configure automatically looks for libsodium, so this is no longer required. If for some reason you wish to build it WITHOUT libsodium and you have it built and installed, configure libzmq with '--without-libsodium'.
So I'm having problems building/making zeromq with libsodium.
im using msys2 as the shell - specifically the mingw32_shell - , and zmq 4.1.0 rc1 with libsodium 1.0.1 and mingw-w64 32bit (gcc 4.9.2).
im currently able to compile libsodium like this
cd .../libsodium
bash configure
make
make check
make install
and everything is fine, all the tests pass and the libs and includes end up in the /usr/local/ folders that msys2 seems to know about.
then when i try to build zeromq with these commands
cd .../zeromq
bash configure --with-libsodium
make
make check
make install
i never get past the configure stage, as configure returns
checking for sodium_init in -lsodium... no
configure: error: libsodium is not installed. Install it or don't pass --with-libsodium to configure script
i have tried the methods suggested in this post - ZeroMQ doesn't spot libsodium - but to no success.
therefore my question is thus: how do i either set the locations for zeromq's configure to look for libsodium to spot, whether with --with-libsodium, --with-libsodium-include-dir= and --with-libsodium-lib-dir=, or have them 'installed' in a location that msys2's shell is able to find?
I assume you tried it already since the link you provided mentions it:
--with-libsodium=/usr/local
I tried this and it worked for me. However, I don't recommend this because for MSYS2, it is cleaner if /usr/local is used only for MSYS2 software, and not MinGW-w64 software. For MinGW-w64 i686 software, the 'right' prefix for 'local' is /mingw32/local
I've just now added libsodium as a dependency on the zeromq package.
Github MinGW-w64 zeromq PKGBUILD commit e32ae0
I will ask Alexey to rebuild and repackage it tomorrow.

Does installing gfortran with homebrew and with an installer create a conflict?

I was following an online tutorial to install some Python modules using homebrew and one step was to install gfortran with brew install gfortran. Later on, I tried using another third-party installation script to install some Python modules and after the fact I realized that part of what the script did was download and run http://r.research.att.com/tools/gcc-42-5666.3-darwin11.pkg. I don't know that much about gfortran, but looking at the brew formula for gfortran it appears that brew uses a different version from the att.com one. Will that lead to problems in the future? I did brew uninstall gfortran and brew install gfortran again, and so far it seems like things are the same (I tried recompiling the old code that I had compiled before), but I am not sure what all the att.com pkg did. (I have OS X 10.8.2 and XCode 4.2 if that matters).
It depends on where the other gfortran installer goes to. In general, no, it won't conflict. * Homebrew is designed to be compatible with third-party gfortran installs - it defines dependencies on a generic "fortran" compiler, and not on the specific gfortran Homebrew formula. Homebrew stays under /usr/local, sticking the main install in /usr/local/Cellar, and symlinking judiciously in to /usr/local/lib. Other installers that install to /usr/local will just prevent Homebrew from linking its own compiler in, but will work with other formulas that use a fortran compiler. (Assuming the gfortran build options are compatible.)
That particular gcc-42 installer you linked to installs to /usr, not to /usr/local.** And its binaries are suffixed with "-4.2"; that is, it installs cpp-4.2, g++-4.2, gfortran-4.2, and so on. So a) there's no direct conflict with the Homebrew gfortran, and b) it won't directly shadow the /usr/local/bin/gfortran installed by Homebrew.
Which compiler will get picked up by things you build with both these gfortrans installed will depend on how the build works, but most will be looking for plain gfortran and so will find the Homebrew one, unless you explicitly direct them to the AT&T-provided one. You don't specify how you're building things, but since you're using brew, I'm assuming it's via brew or command line tools, in which case I think they're all probably seeing the Homebrew gfortran and ignoring this one. Look at the verbose output from their build processes to find out for sure.
*Depending, of course on what you mean by "conflict".
**Side note: AFAIK there's no easy way to figure this out by looking at the package or an installation manager. I just did a find /usr before and after running that installer, and did a diff on the output:
$ diff usr_before_any_installs.txt usr_after_att_install.txt | grep '^[<>]'
> /usr/bin/c++-4.2
> /usr/bin/cpp-4.2
> /usr/bin/g++-4.2
> /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
> /usr/bin/gfortran-4.2
> /usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-cpp-4.2.1
> /usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-g++-4.2.1
> /usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1
> /usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin11-gfortran-4.2.1
> /usr/include/gcc
> /usr/include/gcc/darwin
> /usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.2
...

Installing Ruby 1.9 on OS X Leopard using /usr/local - RVM issues

I have to run a Rails (3.0.6) app locally that requires Ruby 1.9.2 (plus Mongo). I'd like to install Ruby 1.9.2 alongside my existing 1.8.7 and be able to swap between them as necessary. I prefer installing to usr/local over Macports etc. Any recommendations? I've tried installing RVM but this has proved such a pain on OS X I'd rather avoid that too.
Is there another way of running multiple Ruby versions (maybe with a prefix like this)? I only need to switch to 1.9 for this project. Or has anyone a good solution to the known OS X/RVM install issues? Specifically, on Tiger/10.4 bash doesn't support errtrace.
Update: solved with a new RVM install script: see RVM on OS X 10.4 - possible?.
RVM really is the easiest solution, and I would highly recommend you try and work that issue out first.
The only bit of advice is to make sure you configure your PATH variable to include /usr/local/bin before everything else. In your .profile or .login (depending on your shell), you should have it towards the bottom, in case there is any other lines configuring PATH as well, and then for the Bourne shell family:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH
or for the C shell family:
set path = (/usr/local/bin $PATH)
Running ./configure alone should make it install into /usr/local, but you can explicitly state so with
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
Install Ruby from source and it will default to /usr/local/bin. Adjust your path, the #! line, or your /usr/local/bin/ruby source.rb as necessary to switch between Apple's installation of Ruby, and the one you add.
You can force a new base directory using ./configure --prefix=/... where '...' is whatever path you want. Again, once the files are installed, you can adjust the executing Ruby with one of the above methods.
Do not attempt to remove Apple's installed Ruby. It's there for their use, not for our convenience, and Apple uses it to provide some functionality. Messing with it or removing it could break things, and you probably wouldn't notice for a while.
RE: RVM, It really is the preferred way to install a user Ruby. I have it on two Macs, and a handful of different Linux boxes and the only time I had trouble was with a secured machine behind firewalls, but I can't blame RVM for those problems when it couldn't see the internet at all. And, yes, I got it working nicely, I just had to insert the manually downloaded Ruby archives into the ~/.rvm/archives directory.
If you are having problems and want to use it, it might help to temporarily strip your startup scripts, or create a temporary user, and see what happens. Additionally, the author has been very responsive and helpful the few times I've asked him questions. Contact him at:
If you still cannot find what an answer to your question, find me 'wayneeseguin' in #rvm on irc.freenode.net:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=rvm
If you download the source and compile it, it should install into /usr/local by default, or you can
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
just to be sure.
Actually, compiling and installing ruby from source is an easy way to be sure you have the latest version, especially if you use git and github:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby

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