[Pan-users] This system is not Linux! (Re: I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.)

[SciFi]

Hi,

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:43:53 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
> SciFi posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:26:59 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>>  I am about
>> ready to do self-upgrades on the whole gnome system here myself (I
>> never use a pkg-mgr as they all wipe-out my build-environments etc, so
>> you can see how much work this will be for me ;) ).
> 
> You're using the wrong PM, then.  Try Gentoo's portage on for size.  By
> default it protects config dirs and you update them using a script that
> does a 3-way diff.  But you can tell it what further to protect/
> unprotect, and even use VCS (svn, probaby git by now...) managed config
> setups, if you like. =:^)

Duncan, you might not be remembering what I use here,
and/or not looking at my User-Agent line.  ;)
(I know you are doing so-so-so-very much these days. ;) )

The system here is Darwin, specifically OSX-10.5.8 aka Leopard.  ;)
(10.6 / SnowLeopard ain't near ready for open-src apps, blame Apple again.)

We have only two PMs these days: Fink and MacPorts, both of which wipe-out
any of my-own environment settings e.g. CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, etc etc etc etc etc.
FWIW I tune for
CFLAGS="-fast -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -force_cpusubtype_ALL -arch i386"
(very rarely additionally "-arch x86_64" for a multi-arch "bundle").

I put things in /usr/local, not in /opt like these PMs want to do
(it's even worse with 10.6/SL).

Too much of GNome/GLib/etc will not compile/run correctly with Apple's LLVM,
so we are forced to use plain gcc-4.2 (again albeit Apple's version).

I think that's 'it' in a nutshell, at least for now on this topic/list.  ;)