On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:05:31 -0700, dan wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> Thanks for your reply, and particularly the suggestion that i check
> out mac****ts, which i intend to do.
> Now, i've used fink on a prior mac, and the fink people have indeed
> made a huge variety of software available for pretty easy use on
> the mac.
> But i have two reasons to see how far i can get without using fink
> this time around:
> (1) The fink packages require admin access to install, so they change
> the global nature of the machine. It is not possible for each user
> of
> the machine to have a different view of /sw (the root of most of
> fink).
> I understand that the authors may have been more or less forced into
> this kind of design, at least partially, because of the nature of x-
> windows,
> for example. And installing everything in /sw makes the framework
> much simpler, and thus much more robust. So, they have good reasons
> for doing it the way the way they do, but i want my installation
> of gcc to be entirely unprivileged.
> (2) gcc has an elaborate configuration process that accommodates a
> vast range of hardware and operating systems. It should be possible
> to build anywhere, with the configuration phase catching any
> potential problems. Now the reality may not be so good, but i
> would at least like to find out how far it is from the ideal.
> Thanks again for your mail and advice, and if you are anybody
> else has any further suggestions, i'm all ears.
Your comments about fink also apply to mac****ts, which installs in
/opt/local. I haven't used it enough to know whether that is
configurable.
FWIW, here's how the fink version of gcc-4.2.0 was configured on a Mac
Pro. Notice that there are some dependencies on other fink-installed
products, which you will presumably want to replace with your own
installations.
$ gcc-4 -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin8
Configured with: ../gcc-4.2.0/configure --prefix=/sw
--prefix=/sw/lib/gcc4.2 --mandir=/sw/share/man --infodir=/sw/share/info
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,java --with-arch=nocona
--with-tune=generic --host=i686-apple-darwin8 --with-gmp=/sw
--with-libiconv-prefix=/sw --with-system-zlib
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.0
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Dave Seaman
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
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