Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:58 PM, fork <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard Campbell <rlcamp.pdx <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> Can you install the dependencies into their own subdirectories (like
> /opt/pcre-2.32.3, /opt/fftw-xx.yy.zz etc) and then run configure with the
> appropriate switches?  I would like to do it this way so I can delete an 
> entire
> package and not hunt through /usr/local/bin/* /usr/local/lib/* etc.

Or you can use MacPorts, as that is exactly where it places the dependencies.

Ben