Which system of *Nix ports for OSX have people been most successful with? I mean for getting all the dependencies down to install more audio/multimedia stuff on top of.
Darwinports looks OK for basic libs, Fink seems really messy but maybe more complete, and OSXGentoo is more of a proof-of-concept
than something usable as far as I can see. Suggestions in this
department....fink is what I've used for the last 4 years...I've had no "show-stopper" problems, just make sure you're grabbing from cvs/rsync...it also installs both dylibs and statics, and dylibs will be linked against before statics (unless you make things explicit), but this is only meaningful if you are looking into portability between machines...
Yeah, fink works well for me too. I am a big Debian fan, so its nice to have the same system on OSX too.
.hc
I think your descriptions above are about as concise and accurate a
description as you can get. I primarily use darwinports... I have
fink installed too, but of the 50-ish packages I've installed, I
think 2 of them are from fink and both might have since been added to
darwinports...
I recently built ardour ( http://ardour.org/ ), which was a bit of an
ordeal, but as a point of reference, I don't think I had to get
anything from fink to do it -- all from darwinports or just
downloading from sourceforge. I mainly have fink installed because I
know about it before I knew about darwinports.
Cheers, Zac