Re: Anyone had success w/ OSX?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>
- To: Chris Brennan <xaero comcast net>
- Cc: garnome-list gnome org, Michael Moore <stuporglue gmail com>
- Subject: Re: Anyone had success w/ OSX?
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:15:48 -0600
Another possibility is to use the Fink distribution, which contains
many Open Source packages modified for installation on OSX. There are a
good many gnome packages, though I don't know how up-to-date they are.
However, it should phovide a good starting point. the website is
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
John
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:35:54PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> OSX is a BSD based kernel so right off the bat your going to need to
> approch the building process from a *BSD standpoint. Most Linux ELF
> based srcs will compile w/ a BSD kernel w/ little or no modification or
> extra steps, but some of the more advanced features such as X/Gnome
> might require such steps. An excellent resource to keep handy is
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php, Sign up and ask away,
> or post your own questions.
>
> Michael Moore wrote:
>
> >Has anyone had success building GARNOME on OSX?
> >
> >If so, would you care to share any additional steps it took?
> >
> >I'm trying again now, but a month ago, I couldn't get it to work.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> >
>
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