Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Richard Campbell]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:25 PM, fork wrote:

> Is there a single place that attempts to list the requirements and hacks for
> building on Mac OS X?  Is the Readme updated when something new is discovered?
> 
> The spouse will be out of town soon, and I am going to give building the 
> latest
> on my Macbook, Snow Leopard.
> 
> Tx
> 

I would also strongly suggest you not install Macports or Fink, but stick to 
the 'lowest common denominators' for satisfying dependencies.

That basically means installing Xcode (off your Snow Leopard dvd if you don't 
want the ~1.6 GB download), the gfortran from r.research.att.com, building gnu 
sed, pcre, flex, and gnuplot from source, optionally building fftw and readline 
from source. PCRE is the only one of those mandatory dependencies that needs to 
be compiled as a universal binary (but FFTW and readline and many other 
"optional" dependencies also do).