One small correction, I should have said "MacPorts" instead of
"Darwinports". (Thanks to Kjell Konis for reminding me of the name
change).
From: Steve Revilak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:44:49 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?
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From: Douglas Bates Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 07:54:32 -0500
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Do Darwinports and R play nice on Tiger?
I would like to install gnucash on a Macbook running OS X 10.5.4. It
appears that I would need either Fink or Darwinports installed to
install gnucash. Because my past experiences with Fink have not been
positive I am considering installing Darwinports. However, I notice
that they want me to override many system libraries with their
versions of the libraries (http://gnucash.darwinports.com/install/).
Am I likely to cause problems with R running on this system if I do
so?
I have around 40 Darwinports packages installed on Mac OS X 10.4.11
(but not gnucash), along with R (CRAN binaries) and a texlive
distribution; I also have a similar arrangement on another machine
running Mac OS X 10.5.4 (albeit with fewer Darwinports packages). In
general, I've found Darwinports to be very reliable, and I've never
had problems with Darwinports interfering with R or tex (or vice
versa).
If you're truly worried, you can always append /opt/local/bin to your
PATH instead of prepending it.
Some Darwinports packages have a lot of dependencies. However,
Darwinports seems to install everything in /opt/local, along with
supplying the appropriate library directories during compilation.
I don't see any harm in installing gnucash via Darwinports. If, later
on, you suspect that Darwinports is causing a conflict with some other
software on your machine, you can easily confirm (or refute) that
suspicion by renaming /opt/local to /opt/local.NO. Or, just uninstall
it.
For gnucash, installing via a package management system seems like the
safest bet. IIRC, gnucash depends on a lot of libraries that aren't
part of Mac OS (e.g., gnome).
Steve
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