Hi Hieu,

Thanks for trying mosesdecoder (moses) macports. There is gizapp (giza++) and 
you can try it.

Best,
Hiroshi Umemoto ([email protected])

On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Hieu Hoang <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi hiroshi
> 
> i've installed installed moses using your macports package on macosx 10.7.5. 
> Everything works fine.
> 
> Thanks for that, i think it will be a very useful tool.
> 
> Do you know if there is a giza++, or better still mgiza, macport package? 
> Moses is dependent on an alignment tool for training.
> 
> thanks
> hieu
> 
> On 07/10/2012 06:32, Hiroshi Umemoto wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thank you for organising the Moses project. I have created a port for 
>> mosesdecoder in MacPorts to install Moses by a single command on Mac OS. 
>> Although it seemed to work fine on my machine (Mac OS X 10.8.2 a.k.a 
>> Mountain Lion), a serious problem on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was 
>> reported in the macports-dev mailing list:
>> 
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-October/020692.html
>> 
>>> The problem occurs when a port compiles a test with "-o /dev/null", because 
>>> although that will discard the output file, which is what's wanted, it will 
>>> also *delete* the output file (i.e. delete /dev/null) if the test fails. 
>>> Since we only saw this problem on Snow Leopard I guess only gcc does that, 
>>> and clang doesn't.
>>> 
>>> Build 11369 was mosesdecoder, and I did find the "-o /dev/null" construct 
>>> in the file jam-files/sanity.jam. I've just verified on my Snow Leopard 
>>> test machine that building mosesdecoder as-is does delete /dev/null. Now 
>>> I'll restart and patch the port to use "-o dummy" instead and I'll try 
>>> again.
>> Could you check and fix the problem? One of the committers of MacPorts has 
>> created a patch for jam-files/sanity.jam:
>> 
>> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/textproc/mosesdecoder/files/patch_jam-files_sanity.jam.diff?rev=98496
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Hiroshi Umemoto ([email protected])
>> 
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