[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problem Installing liblouisxml on the Mac
- From: "Eitan Isaacson" <eitan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:49:30 +0200
There is a project called Fink (http://finkproject.org), that brings
all of the tools needed for Open Source development to a Mac. There is
also another similar project that might be more popular, but the name
escapes me now.
Since we are talking about releases and such on another thread with
Christian, I think this is an important point:
When we release a tri-platform project like liblouis I think it should
be made downloadable in three forms:
1. A source tarball - this is what we have now, Linux distributions
will use this to make their own packages.
2. A windows binary - I imagine it takes quite a few prerequisites to
build almost anything on Windows, so we should provide a prebuilt
package.
3. A mac binary - same as above.
I see a lot of cross-platform programs distributed like this.
Cheers,
Eitan.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:56 AM, John J. Boyer
<johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Several people have reported problems installing liblouisxml on the Mac
> with recent releases that use autotools. The problem turns out to be
> that the Mac does not have the pkg-config script. I thought it was a
> problem with the location of the liblouis.pc file, but that is where one
> would expect, in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig . The error message from
> configure gives a url for getting pkg-config that doesn't work. Google
> wasn't much help. It turned up some messages reporting the same problem
> of a missing pkg-config script. Does anyone know where this script can
> be obtained? Linux has it, but it's in binary form. Would this work on
> the Mac? If we can't find the pkg-config script I'll have to devise a
> manual installation procedure or go back to the pre-autotooled days for
> the Mac, YUCK!
>
> John
>
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