Re: can't build on MacOS?

... Also of note is that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the path where the OS looks 
when dynamically loading libraries at runtime (on dlopen to be precise). 
I suspect what you need to set is LIBRARY_PATH, since that's the 
variable gcc uses to decide where to look for libraries:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html

cheers

Tom

Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting started with building yhc on MacOS.
> The configure step does not get very far:
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/sw
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
> configure: error: cannot find libgmp
> 
> However, I do have libgmp installed, in /sw/lib, and my LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> variable points to that directory.  Any ideas?