On Dec 11, 2011, at 13:06, Mark Brethen wrote:

> I was developing a port a couple months back for Reduce Algebra. Recently I 
> received some feedback below about the installation on linux and it was 
> pretty simple. Any reason it should not be the same for Mac?
> 
> ###
> 
> -Mark
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: "Andrey G. Grozin" <a.g.gro...@inp.nsk.su>
>> Date: December 11, 2011 9:08:49 AM CST
>> To: Mark Brethen <mark.bret...@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] reduce plugin
>> 
>> On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Mark Brethen wrote:
>>> At present there are no PSL pre-built downloads provided via the 
>>> sourceforge setup. Do you know if it has successfully compiled on a mac?
>> Don't know about mac. On Linux, I just check out the current source using 
>> subversion and do
>> 
>> ./configure --with-psl
>> 
>> It is important to have Internet connection at this moment: configure 
>> actually downloads stuff from ZIB Berlin. Then
>> 
>> make
>> 
>> and that's all. No special installation needed; if you want, you can symlink 
>> redpsl to some place in your $PATH.
>> 
>> Once more, I don't have a mac, and don't know if this will work in MacOS 
>> (and if all the standard tools like GNU make, etc. are available).

Of course the standard tools like GNU make etc. are available on OS X.

The port would need a custom destroot phase to install the software into 
${destroot}${prefix} somewhere.

The configure script should be patched to *not* download stuff; downloads 
should happen only in the fetch phase.


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