[Xastir] cvs issue(with OSX)

Dave MacCarn dave at maccarn.com
Tue May 27 23:27:47 EDT 2003


This is actually in the Fink install documentation (Users Guide, 
Section 2.)
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On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2003, Dennis Hudson wrote:
>
>> Hehe, I got caught up in that too. I put "/sw/bin" in
>> ~/Library/init/tcsh/path file.
>>
>> Dennis, N2LBT
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 21:10 America/New_York, N1OFZ wrote:
>>
>>> Last night I decided it was time to try out cvs to update xastir on 
>>> my
>>> OSX machine.  I ran into a little problem with running bootstrap.sh.
>>> It ran autoconf from the BSD subsystem instead of the X11 system.  To
>>> fix the problem I modified bootstrap.sh to include the full path
>>> (/sw/bin/) for aclocal, autoheader, autoconf and automake.
>>>
>>> This is not a problem worth mentioning except that the casual OSX 
>>> user
>>> may not realize it and complain when configure fails to be built.  I
>>> figure that maybe it could be mentioned in the docs where it talks
>>> about using --prefix=/sw with configure.  Has anyone else using OSX
>>> seen the same thing?
>>>
>>> Dana
>
> If some of you OSX users can come up with a concise method of
> explaining this, and where to put it in the docs, I'd be more than
> happy to add it.
>
> I just saw three messages about this from Dana/Carl/Dennis.  Perhaps
> you three could talk amongst yourselves and agree on the wording?
> This week would be good:  I think we're about to go gold.
>
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