Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>> 
>>> Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native
>>> version of GTK?
>> OK, I'll play dumb.  I recently built PCB from git after naively using macports to make all the dependancies go away.  How is that different from what I did?
> 
> When you run PCB, does it require an X server? In this context, a
> "native" PCB would not need X11.app to run.

Ahhh... OK, I get it.  Yes, my build brings up the X server.  But other than the start-up time, that doesn't bother me.  X11 is preinstalled as of 10.6 (or maybe 10.5, I forget which) so the hassle factor is pretty minimal.

-dave




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