Re: Mac OS X: Building SRC680m108 - are any patches necessary for a successful build?

Eric Hoch wrote:
> fink cp seems to "replace" Mac OS X cp when you have the right fink 
> settings in your .profile or .xinitrc etc pp. So when using cp you 
> use finks gnu-cop instead of Mac OS X cp. 

Sorry for my ignorance, does this mean that I automatically have fink cp 
when I have installed fink or is it a separate package I have to install 
via fink? And what fink settings, where?

> To make it worse not only does end packing now need gnu-copy. 
> Packing mozilla does too. 
> 
> I really don't understand this. I often mentioned that we should 
> use Mac OS X cp so that it is easy for Mac OS X users to build OOo. 

I doubt that the average Mac OS X user will build OOo. But I tend to 
agree with you if there is no unavoidable reason for using gnu-cp why 
not simply using the Mac OS X cp? Is there a reason for using gnu-cp?
OTOH if you need fink or Darwinports anyway for pkgconfig and it 
replaces the Mac OS X cp why bother.

Kind regards,
Tino



> O.K. for pkgconfig being incomplete I understand that we need 
> fink/Darwinports/whatever packagemanger and for gtk2 as an optional 
> feature it's O.K. too simply because Mac OS X is supposed to use 
> Carbon/Quarz.  
> 
> 
>>I tried to use gnucopy installed via Darwinports but it failed.
>>Could be another bug in Darwinport just like the one with freetype.
>>I had no time for further investigation and so far the build is
>>fine with this hackaround."
> 
> 
> So there is no bug in gnucopy but for me one in OOo. But so far 
> nobody seemed to agree with me and all are happy with using 
> gnu-copy. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Eric Hoch
>