[ic] Mac OSX viable as a development platform?

Mon Mar 4 21:55:01 2002

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:15:46PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Robert Brandtjen wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 04 March 2002 04:07 pm, you wrote:
> > 
> > > FWIW, Interchange is the *only* program I've seen throw a segfault
> > > error on OSX. I've seen lots of crashes, to be sure, but nothing
> > > quite this Unixy had cropped up before now, and the lack of more
> > > verbose debug output has been very frustrating.. 
> > 
> > http://interchangeville.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=6
> 
> Err, yeah, I had that forum open in another window as I was writing the
> last message. If you actually read it, it starts out with one guy saying
> he had installed successfully on his Mac, others say "cool", then everyone
> talks about what city they live in. First post 24 Dec, last post 30 Dec.
> Not exactly useful information or a vibrant discussion. No other threads
> on that site returned hits on Mac, OSX, or any other variations. 
> 
> I also looked over the archives for this group, like I mentioned in my
> last message, and couldn't find anything more substantial than someone
> saying "yes I installed Interchange on OSX."
> 
> Of those that have managed to do this, can anyone give me any tips on what
> you might have done to get it running? Did it involve any trickery, or did
> it Just Work? Is something else I installed messing it up? Is something
> I'm running (e.g. the Apple developer's tools kit, which has a lot of the
> BSD tools) out of date? 

There are emails about it off and on here on this list.  I don't recall
if there were real questions or real answers.

I'd suggest you try a manual (non-makecat) install, or even just
copy a tarball from another running machine.

Make sure your perl is recent or maybe try an older IC/MV appropriate
for the perl you do have (if that is the problem, just a guess).

> 
> I would appreciate any discussion re: Interchange on OSX, onlist or off-.
> I just need to get past the segfaults I'm hitting and, presumably, I
> should be back to the same level as other platforms...

If you got past the things that don't work, well, yes, you
would be up to the same level as platforms that do work.
FWIW, I've run linux on mac for maybe 5 years now; it has
never been production grade.

> 
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