Subj : Help compiling on a Mac
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vince Coen
Date : Tue Sep 06 2016 10:50 am

Hello Andrew!

Monday September 05 2016 21:13, you wrote to me:


 VC>> 4.  On one terminal run less SETUP.sh
 VC>> 5.  on other term follow the instruction that relate to autorun
 VC>> [bash SETUP.sh ] - which fails on mine (El Capitan) but does
 VC>> install the services into /etc/services - so useful for
 VC>> something.

 VC>> 6. Reading the SETUP (via 4) and using user & group set up set up
 VC>> first A. the bbs group B. the mbse user noting the details of set
 VC>> up via (4). You will need to go into user set up twice (Advanced)
 VC>> to change group from staff to bbs.

 VC>> Now following the instuctions in INSTALL and compile the package.
 VC>> If you have any missing elements install them via home brew e.g.,
 VC>> brew install packagename using a terminal.

 VC>> That will do it for a wee while - I will look at continuing the
 VC>> install tomorrow and I seem to have hit a snag with wrong targets
 VC>> in the compile so must have a wrong setting somewhere.

 > Vince,

 > If you can give me the necessary information, I should be able to add
 > support for the Intel Macs to SETUP.sh.  I unfortunately do not have
 > access to such a machine.

 > For the most part, it should be a matter of adjusting for differences
 > in where the Macs store things like the users, groups, and passwords.

It is going to be more than that -

Using passwd & group has to be replaced with a different call for each and
every parameter requirement as the mac call only seems to take one param at a
time and it goes to a different place but ends up in the same place i.e.,
/etc/passwd .

Next is that having homebrew installed is vital along with any required
packages including GCC.

Location of the install is different as /opt is a link to the real
/usr/local/Cellar  and as that is on the 'boot' drive a user may well want it
some where else (in my case /Users/mbse).

My head hurts :)

Next one is the build fails due to bad target - need to have a close look at
that as yesterday I did not spot the obvious !

There is more :(

More later ....


Vince

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