From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 01:03:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D4016A40F for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:03:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from mail.scinternet.net (mail.scinternet.net [65.100.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44CE43D45 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:03:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.scinternet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 71774AF5611; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:03:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (qwest-cc-ip47.scinternet.net [63.226.127.47]) by mail.scinternet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE0CAF5607; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:03:04 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <455915BA.9090300@infowest.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:02:50 -0700 From: Lorin Lund User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cremes.devlist@mac.com References: <454E9F7B.5010105@outstep.com> <454EB6D6.3030807@infowest.com> <454EBEEC.1060002@u.washington.edu> <454F210C.9000602@outstep.com> <004001c70706$0d571ec0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <62104DC1-8AD2-41E1-B469-51CAC91A8D8B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <62104DC1-8AD2-41E1-B469-51CAC91A8D8B@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:03:10 -0000 > >> The biggest problem with MacOS X is that a lot of UNIX software that >> runs on FreeBSD and such, is not ported to MacOSX, and it's very >> difficult to compile on MacOSX. > > This is completely wrong. Take a look at macports [1] (formerly > darwinports) for a large repository of UNIX software that compiles > very cleanly on OSX. It's nearly 7 years since OSX shipped to the > public. In that time, most opensource software was updated to compile > cleanly on OSX. The primary changes to allow this were to the > "configure" scripts so they recognize darwin as a base OS. If other > patches were necessary, most software maintainers accepted these > patches back into their trunk. > > OSX has excellent support for most UNIX software. > > cr > > [1] macports.org In trying to compile A+ (see aplusdev.org) I had a few problems getting it compiled for FreeBSD (Because the A+ code was using the wrong macro to identify FreeBSD) But my efforts to compile the latest version for OS X.3 PPC have brought out errors that look like compiler errors. In my view porting to the MAC is harder (though I very much wish it weren't)