[Gretl-devel] OS X build process

[Sven Schreiber]

Am 20.12.2007 23:58, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>   
>> The resulting dmg should be available from:
>> www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/profs/nautz/downloads/software/gretl.dmg
>>
>> To anybody else reading this: this is highly experimental, use 
>> this only for testing purposes! And it's not a 100% current cvs 
>> version, either. What else? Intel only. Maybe 10.5 (Leopard) 
>> only, but I'm sure Allin will test it on 10.4.
>>     
>
> The good news is that it's a perfectly well-formed dmg and the 
> content looks fine.  The bad (but hardly unexpected) news is that 
> it doesn't run on OS X 10.4 -- for lack of the libXrandr library. 
> This must be part of the X11 installation on 10.5 but not 10.4.
>
> I understand that between 10.4 and 10.5 Apple shifted from xfree86 
> to xorg as the basis for their X11 installation.  It's quite 
> likely hopeless (or if not quite that, then beyond the patience of 
> mere mortals) trying to create a build that will run OK on both 
> platforms.
>   

Yes I guess so. :-(
> Is there anyone out there who can test Sven's dmg on Leopard?  If 
> it works generally on Leopard, perhaps we should amend the gretl 
> OS X webpage to point to different dmg's for different OS X 
> variants.  Sven, would it be OK if with 1.7.1 we point an SF link 
> to uni-frankfurt?
>   
Yes, but why actually aren't the mac installers also hosted on 
sourceforge? And I cannot promise anything for >=1.7.2 because I might 
not have regular access to a mac anymore then, I simply don't know yet.

For 1.7.1 I would prepare an updated dmg of course based on the released 
version -- if this beast actually works for someone.

Maybe we should ask for testers on the users list.

cheers,
sven