Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jacob A. Siehler" <siehlerj@wlu.edu> To: Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.60.0507151002510.1525@compy386.local> In-Reply-To: <200507150954.56656.ean@hedron.org> References: <42D6B0EA.3000501@u.washington.edu> <200507141303.43540.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200507150954.56656.ean@hedron.org>
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>> Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see >> if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is. I understand >> Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's port infrastructure? > My Mac (OSX 10.2) doesn't have anything remotely resembling a port > infrastructure installed as part of the OS. All the OSS that I've installed > was done through what I will call binary 'bundles' mostly from .dmg files. > They each provided their own installer (usually using the applescript > langauge). The nearest OS X analogy to the ports system is fink: http://fink.sourceforge.net/ js
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