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

[Duncan]

SciFi posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:35:41 +0000 as excerpted:

> 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).

Hmm... that sounds like the Gentoo/prefix project...  The idea there is 
to install Gentoo user-space, package-manager, and apps, in a non-system 
path on some other host system, whether that be OSX, one of the BSDs, 
even MSWormOS (using Cygwin maybe? I don't know, just know someone's 
doing it).

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