>From: Pierre Vaudrey <email@hidden>
>I would like to install the swarm-2.1.1-1.rh6.ppc.rpm package on my osX
>10.1.3 PowerBook. What do you recommend ?
The code in the rpm will not execute (ELF not Mach-O) even if you could
install it, which you cannot.
Currently swarm has not been ported to MacOSX, but several people
including myself are hacking at it.
There are significant problems because the current Apple Developer Tools
version of gcc (aka cc) will not compile Swarm code because it uses nested
functions. Any attempt to compile it requires gcc3.1 which is still not
released but the current experimental source can be obtained from the
Apple Opensource cvs with the tag 'gcc3'. You would also need the latest
development versions of Swarm code. The release 2.1.1 will definitely
never compile on MacOS X.
If you want to keep up with current progress, sign onto the swarm-support
(email@hidden) list and the gcc3
(email@hidden).
Apart the compiler, there missing libraries such as avcall. Also BLT
currently only compiles with X11 on MacOS X. Also the autoconf scripts
grok without X11. I have a scheme to get it to compile with the Apple
Aqua TCL/TK frameworks, but I am short of time right now.
Sorry to be depressing, but it will happen soon because a lot of us want
it to. Also Apple are putting a lot of work into the 3.1 compiler. The
intention being that the Apple and FSF compilers will share the same
source as is already the case with XFree86.
Bill Northcott
School of Banking and Finance
UNSW
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