On 15/01/2010, at 09:21 PM, joerg van den hoff wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:48:48 +0100, Miklos Somogyi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On 14/01/2010, at 08:31 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote: >> >>> Hello Miklos, >>> >>> Am 14.01.2010 um 07:57 schrieb Miklos Somogyi: >>> >>>> My questions are: 1) Is there an intel version of groff at all? >>> >>> >>> Groff has been with OS X at least since I use it (10.2) and it's still with >>> 10.6, 1.19.2. >>> >> >> Good to hear that if I go the distance, I will not be disappointed with PPC >> versions. >> >> >>> >>>> 2) Anyone who went through of getting unix stuff and X under Snow any >>>> advice please? > > as already noted by patrik schindler, groff should be there (in /usr/bin) > anyway > in a fresh 10.6 install. what makes you believe it's not there? >
I did a few "file" there and all of them were ppc, so next I did "file * | grep -L" and it showed nothing. Now that you mentinoned groff as not ppc, I found that I used the wrong option, "-L" instead of "-v". That showed up a lot of non-ppc program. I've found groff but unfortunately gs was not there. I hope that unlike its ppc cousin eqn will work here. > one remote possibility: if you came from 10.4 to 10.6: I believe upt to and > including 10.4 > `tcsh' was the default shell in the macos `Terminal'. nowadays its `bash'. if > you've had configured > your `tcsh' path to find your own `groff' executable (whereever that is on > your machine) it might be > that this location no longer is on the `bash' search path. > > concerning migration from ppc to intel: there's a compatibility mode allowing > to use > your ppc binaries with the intel machine but it's better to > recompile/re-install native binaries > (which execute faster significantly). > > concerning 'unix stuff': I'm usually (not always) quite content using the > Macports package management > system (e.g. for installing `gs' and `gv', as you mentioned them.) > I havent heard of Macports, I'l google for it 'cause I need gs badly. > concerning X: as used to be the case in the past, it's on the macos install > DVD under 'additional software' (or > a similar title). I believe it's still not installed by default. > > joerg > > I haven't used the install DVD, Migration Assistant did the job on ethernet. I downloaded Xcode32 developer stuff from Apple, but I haven't looked at it yet. I am a bit confused when people talk about X, do they mean Xcode or something much less. I also downloaded gfortran but it complain about the lack of "as", perhaps an assembler? Well, tonight I try to put my groff house in order. Thank you for your post, Miklos >>> >>> >>> What exactly do you need/miss? There's groff, there's GNU textutils and >>> there's vim. What else do you need? :-) >>> >>> >> >> e.g. g77, gs, gv, and some supporting X needed too. >> >>> :wq! PoC >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >
