Re: Anyone had success w/ OSX?

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Another possibility  is to use the Fink distribution, which contains 
many Open Source packages modified for installation on OSX. There are a 
good many gnome packages, though I don't know how up-to-date they are. 
However, it should phovide a good starting point. the website is
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

John

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:35:54PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> OSX is a BSD based kernel so right off the bat your going to need to 
> approch the building process from a *BSD standpoint. Most Linux ELF 
> based srcs will compile w/ a BSD kernel w/ little or no modification or 
> extra steps, but some of the more advanced features such as X/Gnome 
> might require such steps. An excellent resource to keep handy is 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php, Sign up and ask away, 
> or post your own questions.
> 
> Michael Moore wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone had success building GARNOME on OSX? 
> >
> >If so, would you care to share any additional steps it took? 
> >
> >I'm trying again now, but a month ago, I couldn't get it to work. 
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> -- 
> "I love to eat them Smurfies
> Smurfies what I love to eat
> Bite they ugly heads off,
> Nibble on they bluish feet."
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
>                The STAR WARS Song
>        Sung to the tune of "Lola", by the Kinks:
> 
> I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah
> Where it bubbles all the time like a giant cabinet soda
>        S-O-D-A soda
> I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
> I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said Yoda
>        Y-O-D-A Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda
> 
> Well I've been around but I ain't never seen
> A guy who looks like a Muppet but he's wrinkled and green
>        Oh my Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda
> Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand
> How he can raise me in the air just by raising his hand
>        Oh my Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda
> 
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