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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Jacob A. Siehler" <siehlerj@wlu.edu>
To:        Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSX.4.60.0507151002510.1525@compy386.local>
In-Reply-To: <200507150954.56656.ean@hedron.org>
References:  <42D6B0EA.3000501@u.washington.edu> <200507141303.43540.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200507150954.56656.ean@hedron.org>

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>> Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see
>> if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is.  I understand
>> Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's port infrastructure?
> My Mac (OSX 10.2) doesn't have anything remotely resembling a port
> infrastructure installed as part of the OS. All the OSS that I've installed
> was done through what I will call binary 'bundles' mostly from .dmg files.
> They each provided their own installer (usually using the applescript
> langauge).

The nearest OS X analogy to the ports system is fink:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/

js




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