I think it is the latter. Can anyone who worked on the Mac OS port confirm?

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 08:12:57AM +0200, Martin Segeth wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Lance Richardson <lrich...@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > From: "Ben Pfaff" <b...@ovn.org>
> > > > To: "Martin Segeth" <m.seg...@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org
> > > > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 3:52:05 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Mac OS X?
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 09:44:50PM +0200, Martin Segeth wrote:
> > > > > I was trying to build OVS 2.5.0 on a Mac but get a few a errors.
> While
> > > > > researching on this topic I came across a previous thread on this
> dev
> > > > > mailing list where this was already discussed without having found
> a
> > > > > solution yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone meanwhile managed to get it compiled on Mac OS X? If
> not, I
> > > > > guess it just does not work and would require some development
> work to
> > > get
> > > > > it ported, wouldn't it?
> > > >
> > > > I think that someone ported master to Mac OS.  Try building that.
> > >
> > > Travis does OS X builds as part of OVS CI for the master and 2.6
> branches.
> > > See https://travis-ci.org/openvswitch/ovs/builds for examples. The
> > > necessary
> > > development tools can be installed for OS X using "brew".
> > >
> > > The last time I tried, "make check" mostly passed for OS X, failures
> were
> > > generally in test cases using netdev-dummy.
> > >
> >
> > I managed to compile the master branch as suggested by Ben. The missing
> > development tools like autoconf and automake could indeed be installed
> with
> > brew.
> >
> > Though, I am unable to create a bridge interface. The userspace
> > installation readme says the datapath type is to be changed to netdev as
> > opposed to system and FreeBSD/NetBSD requires the tap driver built into
> the
> > kernel or loaded as a module.
>
> I'm not sure whether the Mac OS port is a real working port or just
> enough to compile and run the unit tests.
>
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