I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed. Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard? All suggestions are welcome. Giulio Bertellini
On Jan 9, 2008 11:24 AM, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed.
Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard?
All suggestions are welcome.
Hmmm .... that's not a source package, otherwise it would work. But which "ConTeXt Minimal Linux Intallation" exactly are you talking about? There is one at pragma website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm where you need to download macosxtex.zip and justtex.zip, and there's one at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ with some not-yet-fully-stable installer which uses rsync to fetch and update the files. Mojca
On Jan 9, 2008 11:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 11:24 AM, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed.
Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard?
All suggestions are welcome.
Hmmm .... that's not a source package, otherwise it would work. But which "ConTeXt Minimal Linux Intallation" exactly are you talking about? There is one at pragma website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm where you need to download macosxtex.zip and justtex.zip, and there's one at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ with some not-yet-fully-stable installer which uses rsync to fetch and update the files.
I forgot to answer your main question: on pragma, macosxtex includes powerpc binaries which should work on any mac. On the garden the binaries are separate for powerpc and intel, perhaps slightly more recent and slightly less tested. I've heard many leopard users complaining, but only about prolems with compilation. Once compiled on Tiger, the binaries seem to work OK. Mojca
Thank you for your reply. Over the weekend, I think I attempted to install
Linux Binaries out of the expectation that Linux binaries would work on any
X86 machine, provided perl and ruby are available.
I am new to the mac environment and the reason I bought it was to be able to
have a nice user interface on top of a long established BSD UNIX
distribution. I was also assuming that on that type of machine, I could do
what is easily done on a Linux machine.
Giulio
On 1/9/08, Mojca Miklavec
On Jan 9, 2008 11:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 11:24 AM, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also
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Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed.
Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard?
All suggestions are welcome.
Hmmm .... that's not a source package, otherwise it would work. But which "ConTeXt Minimal Linux Intallation" exactly are you talking about? There is one at pragma website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm where you need to download macosxtex.zip and justtex.zip, and there's one at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ with some not-yet-fully-stable installer which uses rsync to fetch and update the files.
I forgot to answer your main question: on pragma, macosxtex includes powerpc binaries which should work on any mac. On the garden the binaries are separate for powerpc and intel, perhaps slightly more recent and slightly less tested.
I've heard many leopard users complaining, but only about prolems with compilation. Once compiled on Tiger, the binaries seem to work OK.
Mojca
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As far as I could ascertain the compiling problems on MAcOSX 10.5.x (Leopard) go away when in the CFLAGS is included an architecture parameter, e.g. -arch ppc -arch i386 or more specific mcpu=G5 etc. It seems otherwise the correct ANSI_C header files are not found by the gcc compiler. Hans van der Meer On 9 jan 2008, at 11:54, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 11:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Jan 9, 2008 11:24 AM, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed.
Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard?
All suggestions are welcome.
Hmmm .... that's not a source package, otherwise it would work. But which "ConTeXt Minimal Linux Intallation" exactly are you talking about? There is one at pragma website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm where you need to download macosxtex.zip and justtex.zip, and there's one at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ with some not-yet-fully-stable installer which uses rsync to fetch and update the files.
I forgot to answer your main question: on pragma, macosxtex includes powerpc binaries which should work on any mac. On the garden the binaries are separate for powerpc and intel, perhaps slightly more recent and slightly less tested.
I've heard many leopard users complaining, but only about prolems with compilation. Once compiled on Tiger, the binaries seem to work OK.
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