I've got three brand new OS X Leopard Mac Pros that need the complete OS Geographic software stack built (GMT, GRASS, Image Magic, etc) but I have limited experience in OS X. For years on Debian/Ubuntu I just let the package manager (aptget) handle all the libraries and I only compiled from source the main programs that weren't in the repository.
What do you do to build up all the libraries? Manage the dozens of required libraries manually? Fink? MacPorts? William Kyngesburye? I tried using MacPorts on a Tiger laptop and wound up downloading and compiling a brand new OS in /opt/local by the time I was done satisfying dependencies---complete with a duplicate version of GCC (SciPy wanted the new F95 compiler, I guess). That was a colossal effort, a complete waist of all the work Apple has done and introduced serious confusion between native OS X and X11 libraries which I never completely resolved. In fact, a few days ago, GRASS stopped compiling altogether because of an OpenGL problem...Anyway, I'd like to avoid that if possible. Any ideas? -- David Finlayson, Ph.D. Operational Geologist U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Science Center 400 Natural Bridges Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA Tel: 831-427-4757, Fax: 831-427-4748, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
