[Axiom-developer] Re: [SAGEdev] Xcode and Fink (was: Hopefully stupid question)

[Justin C. Walker]

On Sep 6, 2006, at 09:44 , Page, Bill wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:44 AM Justin C. Walker wrote:
> > On Sep 6, 2006, at 02:24 , Tim Daly wrote:
> > > So SAGE is using Xcode and not Fink? Thus it would help future
> > > compatibility if I used Xcode?
> >
> > ...
> > Xcode is two things: it's a package of tools for development on
> > Mac OS X; and it's an IDE for working on programming/debugging/ 
> > editing
>
> > tasks.
> > ...
> > So: you need to have Xcode (the package) installed, but you don't
> > need to "use Xcode".
> >
> > I hope that is both clearer, and not too pedantic.
>
> I think it's very clear, thank you.
>
> So, how can I tell of Xcode is installed? In particular, how
> can I tell of Xcode is installed on the OS X system in the
> SourceForge compile farm? The server is accessed via ssh command
> line. The compile farm docs

Xcode (the IDE and friends) is installed in "/Developer", so check  
for that directory.  However, as I said, Xcode is also the tool chain  
(gcc, dyld, ...), and those are what you want.  Especially when  
viewed from an ssh perspective, it should look, more or less, like  
any Unix system:
   gcc -v
will tell you what version of the compiler you have.

> http://sourceforge.net/docs/compile_farm
>
> seem to be a little out of date since the
>
> * ppc-osx1: Apple Mac OS X 10.1 Server with Fink running on an Mac G4
> * ppc-osx2: Apple Mac OS X 10.2 Server with Fink running on an Mac G4
>
> are no longer available but there is a system named ppc-osx3 running
> OS X 10.3.

You can the version of the OS with "sw_version" (command-line).

> If both Xcope and Fink are installed, since this is a shared server
> with no root access can you recommend a procedure that will ensure
> that I do not inherit any Fink dependencies?

The most straight-forward is to check your environment variables  
('env').  You don't want anything like "/sw/..." in any of them  
(e.g., PATH).

If the 10.3 system is not 10.3.9, then you may have some build  
problems with SAGE; ask here for help if things go sour.  I can try  
building things for you on my 10.4 systems if you want to verify that  
they work on a more recent system.

Hope that helps.

Justin

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