That is exactly what Gentoo's portage system is for. The cool thing is that you can install portage on Mac OSX 10.2 and later:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/macos-guide.xml?style=printable I have not tried this, but it sounds like what you want. Richard Esplin On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:04, stuporglue wrote: > I've been installing quite a few things from source (or at least > trying to) on my Mac as I try to build the dependencies for GRAMPS. > Every time I want to build of course, I run > > ./configure > make > make install > > The configures check many of the same things. Is there a convenient > way to set a variable somewhere saying what the max argument length > is, and if we're using the Fortran compiler, and a bunch of the other > thinks it checks for? It would greatly reduce the time I sit waiting! > > Thanks, > Michael ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
