gEDA-dev: gEDA on mac os x

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:36 +0000, Tomaž Šolc wrote:
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> Hi everyone
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> I just compiled and installed the latest git version of gEDA on my
> laptop (running OS X 10.5).
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> I installed all necessary libraries from macports and I had to make some
> minor modifications to scripts in gEDA source tree. I've put a patch on
> the tracker:
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> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1832417&group_id=161080&atid=818428
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> There are only two kinds of changes in it:
> 
> AC_CHECK_DECLS(...) macro for Guile 1.6 compatibility doesn't use
> GUILE_CFLAGS. I think this fix should go into the repository because the
> current configure scripts probably also don't work on other systems that
> need -I flags to find guile headers.

Probably my mistake. Thanks for catching it.

> libtool and libtoolize are named glibtool and glibtoolize on OS X
> (libtool seems to be some unrelated utility).

As I just commented on the bug, there is probably some portable way to
tell... just I don't know what it is. I guess we need to define some
"LIBTOOL" variable, which gets set by some test, and use that in the
Makefiles.

> I'll probably try to make macports packages for gEDA tools in the near
> future.

Cool,

Best wishes,

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Peter Clifton

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