EMBOSS on OS X

[David Martin]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jean-Christophe Ame wrote:

> I have installed EMBOSS on MacOSX since the release of the public
> beta ant it works like a charm. There is no problem installing it,
> one needs just to remove -lnsl everywhere in the configure file.


Could you give me a detailed description and I will plug it in to the next
edition of the admin guide. ie. a step by step process. I don't have a Mac
yet (though I should be getting one soon).

Maybe the EMBOSS developers could add a something to the configure script
to deal with OS X?

..d


> Jean-Christophe
>
>
> >David Martin wrote (to the EMBOSS list):
> >>
> >>  Has anyone tried compiling and running EMBOSS on MacOS X yet? I can
> >>  imagine this being very nice with the X interfaces (Colimate etc).
> >
> >And Richard Phelps wrote (to me personally):
> >>
> >>  How might I install emboss on Mac Os X??
> >
> >Well, personally, I think I've touched the keyboard of a Mac maybe five times
> >in my life (they're not common here at all), so it's highly unlikely I'll
> >have the pleasure of using MacOS X any time soon.
> >
> >However:
> >
> >- It would be interesting to know how easily an application with a relatively
> >   GNUish installation process compiles and installs on OS X.  I would
> >   personally be very interested in feedback.  (Shouldn't be too difficult by
> >   all reports.)
> >
> >- Secondly, there is a project underway (though it's in its early stages yet)
> >   to unify packaging systems across a number of BSD-based operating systems,
> >   including OS X.  In fact, Wilfredo Sanches, the former design lead on OS X,
> >   is a developer on this project.  Should their work come to fruition, it's
> >   possible that the existing FreeBSD port could eventually serve as the basis
> >   for installing EMBOSS on OS X as well.  :-)  See:
> >
> >     http://www.openpackages.org/
> >
> >-- Johann
>
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