Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-10-18 Thread Joshua Root
On 2009-10-19 11:10, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2009, at 00:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 23:17, Sumner Trammell wrote: >>> checking objc/objc.h usability... no checking objc/objc.h presence... no checking for objc/objc.h... no configure: error: Can

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-10-18 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 20, 2009, at 00:38, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 19, 2009, at 23:17, Sumner Trammell wrote: checking objc/objc.h usability... no checking objc/objc.h presence... no checking for objc/objc.h... no configure: error: Can't locate Objective C runtime headers As it happens, I want to insta

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-20 Thread Emmanuel Hainry
I used to run macports on my debian box. It worked quite well but I stopped because I did not find any way to use the system Xorg. The packages I installed were mostly (debian packages, so probably different on suse): libcurl3-gnutls, gobjc-4.4, gnustep-core-devel and probably a few other that I d

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 20, 2009, at 02:31, Joshua Root wrote: On 2009-8-20 14:17, Sumner Trammell wrote: MacPorts works so well that I would like to build it on a Linux system and use it there. [snip] I do hope you understand, BTW, that the vast majority of ports are never tested on anything other tha

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-20 Thread Joshua Root
On 2009-8-20 14:17, Sumner Trammell wrote: > MacPorts works so well that I would like to build it on a Linux system > and use it there. I'm (unfortunately) using SuSE (SLES) Linux. Running > configure without options died here: > > checking objc/objc.h usability... no > checking objc/objc.h presen

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-19 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 19, 2009, at 23:17, Sumner Trammell wrote: checking objc/objc.h usability... no checking objc/objc.h presence... no checking for objc/objc.h... no configure: error: Can't locate Objective C runtime headers If there is no way to build MacPorts on a Linux system MacPorts focuses on Ma

Re: Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Berry
On 20-Aug-09, at 12:17 AM, Sumner Trammell wrote: If there is no way to build MacPorts on a Linux system I'm going to guess that many ports contain OS X specific patches, much like FreeBSD Ports do. Unless there's an easy way to turn such patches off, you're going to run into problems buil

Building MacPorts on a Linux system

2009-08-19 Thread Sumner Trammell
Hi, I have been extremely satisfied with MacPorts on my Mac. I love that MacPorts is self-contained and the ports and their dependencies don't touch the rest of the system. I compiled it with: --prefix=~/macports --with-tclpackage=~/macports/Library/Tcl and everything is happily isolated in my h