[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problem Installing liblouisxml on the Mac
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:13:15 -0600
Eitan,
I agree with your comments on tri-platform distribution. We really need
some Windows programmers working on this project. Mac binaries would be
nice as well. The liblouis tarball actually works on the Mac and the
liblouis tools work once you set your path to include /usr/local/bin
Natively, the Mac does not have such a directory. The problem is just
with liblouisxml and xml2brl. The Mac actually does have autotools,
somewhat to my surprise. They apparently devised a way to get along
without pkg-config. I've used Fink before and I may try it again. The
other project is dwarenPorts.
John
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 06:49:30AM +0200, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> 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
> >
> > My websites:
> > http://www.godtouches.org
> > http://www.jjb-software.com
> > Location: Madison, WI, USA
> >
> > For a description of the software and to download it go to
> > http://www.jjb-software.com
> >
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
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