[MINC-development] Building MINC for OS X 10.6

[Andrew Janke]

>>  netcdfg-dev libhdf5-serial-dev libnetpbm9-dev fftw-dev libgsl0-dev
>> libgetopt-tabular-perl libmni-perllib-perl libxext-dev glutg3-dev
>> libsoqt3-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev imagemagick libtext-format-perl
>> libpcre++0 libpcre3 libsimage-dev libpcre++-dev
>
> Ah the beauty of the Debian/Ubuntu package manager... The list gets much
> longer when you include the dependencies of the dependencies.

Absolutely

> There used to
> be a MINC port on Fink or Macports but I think it's grown out of date. Who
> was the owner of those ports by the way?

I remember starting one a yonk ago and since then various people have
looked after various things but there is no consistent mac build that
I know of. Primarily as the only Mac that I have is my trusty old 13"
PowerBook G4 running Tiger.

> If i'm successful here, I might consider maintaining them and save future Mac users some sweat.

Well I for one won't stop you.  Jason Lerch and myself were at one
stage building monolithic MINC OSX installers that were using the Mac
packager/installer. (.pkg and .mpkg files)  See:

   http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/osx-10.4/minc-1.4-20060620.mpkg.tar.gz

>> > mni_perllib-0.08: I get the following error:
>> Safe to ignore.
>
> Certain? The script doesn't seem to finish as no config.h is created. Make
> won't run.

Hrm, perhaps it's a perl 5.1 vs 5.4 thing. In my (often not so humble)
opinion mni_perllib should die. It's antiquated and VERY BIC specific.
The tests check for a long.q on shadow for example... (shadow was an
old SGI O200 system at the BIC 10 years ago....  I think I stubbed
this bit out a while back but I certainly don't use mni_perllib for
anything I do and remove it where feasible in all code I maintain.

> I must add another one to the list: xdisp-4.6 doesn't build. Here's the
> complete trace:

xdisp is really a bit of an esoteric old dinosaur (sorry Bruce if you
are reading this.. :) It has no maintainer and I am not going to stick
my hand up to do it right now....



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