[GRASSLIST:1102] Re: Mac OS X build

[Jeshua Lacock]

>hi jeshua:
>
>out of curiosity, what are you planning to do with the user 
>interfaces (tcltk & nviz)?  are you going to rewrite them in cocoa? 
>this seems like the best option to me, as the end user won't have to 
>mickey mouse with an xwindow emulator. 
>
>i'm not much of a programmer, but i've tried to compile the 
>grass5beta8 sources on mac osx and it fails on the first line of the 
>./configure:
>
>[localhost:/opt/grass] andya% ./configure
>creating cache ./config.cache
>checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host 
>type; you must specify one
>

Andy,

Try:  ./configure -host powerpc-apple-bsd

Provided that you have cc/gcc installed, it should start compiling!!


Good luck,
-- 
Jeshua Lacock
Cartographer/Owner
http://SierraMaps.com
http://3dTopoMaps.com
Telephone: (760) 935-4481
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