> On 23 Jan 2016, at 18:20, Paul Onions <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> In case anyone is interested I thought I’d post my experience of building 
> FriCAS on OSX.  For reference this is FriCAS 1.2.7 on OSX 10.11.2 (El 
> Capitan).  To do this I needed the Xcode command line tools [1] and the 
> XQuartz package [2] to be installed.  Then I could build FriCAS from source 
> using the following configure invocation:-
> 
>  ./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11/include
> 
> I’m not sure why I need to specify the x-includes directory, it would be nice 
> if it was autodetected —- I had a look at the build machinery but quickly got 
> lost :-(
> 
> Hope this is helpful to someone,
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/technotes/tn2339
> [2] http://www.xquartz.org

For reference, I have also realised that the build process requires GNU awk 
(the OSX-supplied awk, it seems, will not do).  The ``gawk’’ port of MacPorts 
[3] will supply this, and FriCAS’s configure script will automatically pick it 
up.

Regards,
Paul

[3] http://www.macports.org

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