Re: Mac OS X build reference?

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Richard Campbell wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:47 PM, fork wrote:
> 
>> Richard Campbell <rlcamp.pdx <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Ideally yes, the readme is updated. A couple threads this past
>>> month have collected the newest info.
>> 
>> Yeah, have those threads been incorporated into the README?
>> 
>> I will also do the lowest common denominator as you suggest in another post. 
>> I would like to learn how to make a dmg, but I am not sure that is going to 
>> happen....
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I submitted this to the Mercurial patches, at 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/index.php?7466
> 
> All changes are in section 2.2.1. Flex and PCRE are now required, FFTW is not 
> (but I left the instructions for compiling it, as they are rather specific 
> and FFTW is highly desirable and a good example of how to compile one of the 
> dependencies). Changed occurrences of 'make install' to 'sudo make install'. 
> Clarified that not just any gfortran will work.
> 
> I'm also attaching the patch file to this email, in case that is more 
> convenient for you, and the resulting patched version of the current 
> Readme.MacOS for fork's sake, so that he can get started right away if he 
> desires.
> 
> Campbell
> 
> <patch_readme_macos_critical_dependencies.patch><README.MacOS>

I've pushed the change.

Ben