Life On Mac is Hard

Posting this for posterity, for Mac developers. If you're not a Mac developer who treats it like a glorified Unix machine ( instead of using XCode for everything ), this might not make much sense. Move along. I'll post a recipe or something later.

This post applies to libogg 1.3.0, libvorbis 1.3.3, and was done on Mac OS X 10.7 running on a MacBook Pro. After you get done installing libogg 1.3.0, attempting to run libvorbis 1.3.3's configure script will result in the following error spew:


*** Could not run Ogg test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means Ogg was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved Ogg since it was installed.
configure: error: must have Ogg installed!

Which is, of course, complete nonsense, assuming you did install libogg 1.3.0 first, using proper permissions and everything. You can test that libogg 1.3.0 installed correctly using a C/C++ program if you like; I leave that as an exercise for the reader. The problem is that the configure script for libvorbis tries to build to i386 instead of x86_64. To correct this, you have to force the build script to build for x86_64 instead. Run ./configure --build=x86_64.

I freely admit I wasn't smart enough to figure out anything past 'libogg is trying to build to x86_64, while libvorbis is trying to build to i386, what's up with that?'. This forum post gave me the rest of the pieces necessary to make the whole thing work ( scroll to the bottom to find the relevant post ).

For my next trick, I might fix the configure scripts and see if I can't get the fix back to the Xiph guys, but... probably not. Still not smart enough. Working on that.