I know this is OT, but there's just so much brainpower on this list I have to ask ;-)
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.
thx+best, derek
On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:43 AM, derek holzer wrote:
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...
james
On Sep 21, 2005, at 5:38 PM, james tittle wrote:
On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:43 AM, derek holzer wrote:
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
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