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Darryl L. Miles 39b9b528cb doc: note coreutils/gdate is optional on macOS (INSTALL_MacOS.md)
The build's SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH date handling auto-detects gdate/GNU date and
falls back to native BSD `date -r`, so coreutils is not a prerequisite (unlike
gnu-sed).  Add an optional note so the reproducible-build audience knows it is
available but not needed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 14:54:11 -04:00
Darryl L. Miles b21b20364b build: add "make prepare" and use it in docs/CI instead of database.h path
The generated header's path now depends on in-tree vs relocated builds
(database/database.h vs include/database/database.h), so instructions
that named it directly ("make database/database.h") are brittle.

Add a stable, path-independent top-level target:

    .PHONY: prepare
    prepare: ${DATABASE_H}

Being .PHONY the name is always valid, but its prerequisite is the real
file target ${DATABASE_H}, so the header is still regenerated only when
out of date -- same result, no exposed path.

Convert every "make database/database.h" in the docs, appimage
Dockerfiles, and CI workflows to "make prepare".

Verified: relocated `make prepare` generates include/database/database.h;
re-running is a no-op; touching database.h.in triggers regeneration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 14:54:11 -04:00
Darryl L. Miles 54bbedfdbb INSTALL_MacOS.md: Update to install gnu-sed
The platform /usr/bin/sed does this:

/usr/bin/sed -e "/#/D" -e "/ \//s/ \/.*\.h//" -e "/  \\\/D" -i Depend$PPID.tmp
sed: -I or -i may not be used with stdin

But a filename was specified, so the error should be file does not exist
2025-07-29 10:50:32 -04:00
Darryl L. Miles 46eb71491c GHA: MacOS maintenance update
GHA obsoleted macos-12 so we move to macos-13 for Intel.  Building with oldest
Intel image to provide feedback of continued expected support on that platform,
while ARM64 builds with latest to check the other end of their SDKs.

Lock the TCL version via brew to 8.6+ (currently the project is not expected to
build on TCL9 until other work is completed) so this is causing build failure.

Added additional diagnostics to show the location of executables/DSOs if they
got built from the tree.

Introduced GHA timeout clamping (MacOS default shell seems not to behave under
CI as well as Linux does, re signal/pipe handling)

'brew install tcl-tk@8' appears to append the @8 to the installed path such as
/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk@8 which configure needs to know.  configure_mac updated
to detect this now TCL9 is the default version that maybe installed at the old
location.  Then there is the issue of both TCL versions being installed
side-by-side on the same system causing more issues over selection.
2025-01-04 11:23:39 -05:00
Dikshant 40e6a28ff6 appended macOS install file for XQuartz Display issue. 2023-11-02 18:08:03 +05:30
Donn 86630fcc02 Allow Python 3 to not be in PATH, Fix `clean` re-building dependencies
* Adds Python 3 to macOS requirements
* Gate include of `DEPEND_FILE` in `rules.mak` on whether the target is `clean` or not (the include isn't pre-processed; it will attempt to build everything in the include otherwise)
* Make `makedbh` a configurable file- the shebang now uses the discovered path for Python3
2023-08-29 22:43:11 +03:00
Donn 02e16b8bce Build Updates
This is a series of updates to make building magic far less of a headache:

* Drop `csh`/`tcsh` dependency and detection from `./configure`.
* Rewrite makedbh in Python.
* Rewrite printmans in POSIX sh.
* Stop deleting Depend before every compile (which causes some files to recompile and thus increases recompile times significantly)
* Add Depend to CLEANS in scripts/defs.mak.in
* Turn POSIX suffix rule in magic/rules.mak to a pattern rule with proper prerequisites
2023-08-25 12:24:14 -04:00
Mohamed Gaber 9bf3d76260 Mac Build Fixes
+ Add "smoke test" build CI to Github Actions
+ Added a configure_mac script (requires brew)
~ caddr_t -> void* (was never a part of any UNIX standard)
2022-05-03 08:30:39 -04:00
Harald Pretl e1c519a1aa Added installation instructions for MacOS (Big Sur).
Changes to be committed:
new file:   INSTALL_MacOS.md
2021-10-02 11:29:43 +02:00