Subj : Help compiling on a Mac
To   : Vince Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Thu Sep 08 2016 08:29 am

Hello Vince!

Tuesday September 06 2016 10:50, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

 VC> It is going to be more than that -

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

OK.  That can still be done; we just need a way to detect we are in an Intel 
Mac environment.

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

This requirement can be addressed in the README, or possibly by adding a check 
to the configure script.

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

Again, this is something we can address in the configure script.

 VC> My head hurts :)

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

Ok.  You'll need to take the lead on diagnosing that, unless someone donates an 
Intel Mac to me... ;-)

 VC> There is more :(

 VC> More later ....

I'll be here.

Andrew

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