On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 24/01/2013 15:47, Chris Marshall wrote:
>>
>>
>> As far as I know, PDL does build out of the box on Mac OS X (at least
>> no test failures have been reported).
>
> My recent experience of an initial install on OS X is finding the supporting
> libraries and programmes, getting ExtUtils::F77 tied to a Fortran. It's all
> documented, but some of the docs and the URIs they reference are a bit out
> of date. Inclusion of any binary dependencies (if supported in MacPorts)
> would also need to account for differences in the various animals that are
> OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion ...).

Yes, that is the most involved part.  PDL should build
out of the box provided the prerequisites are available.
There are a number of optional features that will not be
built unless appropriate libraries, compilers,..are
present and detected.

> I'm not familiar enough with PDL to be useful in this respect, but I would
> be available for running tests on OS X 10.8.6.

Thanks for the offer.  I'm sure it will be useful if
someone steps up to the plate.

--Chris

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