Compiling method and mysql on OSX

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Sep 30 10:21:12 EDT 2013


On Sep 30, 2013, at 6:07 AM, Benjamin Martens <bdmartens at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a headless server at home running my MySQL database for
> gnucash, which I access from my windows laptop.  This all works quite
> well.  My challenge came up when trying to get my wife and her MacBook
> Pro (Intel, 64 bit, OSX -Snow Leopard) on to this as well.
> 
> 
> Having never built for Mac before (I have some background in Linux, as
> well as Windows), I'm sure I've done several things the long way, but
> jhbuild seems to be quite onerous when it comes to dependencies.
> Being 64-bit certainly doesn't help with this either, nor does having
> OSX 10.6.8 installed on that laptop.  I don't have a 32 bit machine to
> build on.
> 
> 
> Someone I know at Apple asked me why jhbuild was being used (as he had
> many similar problems with dependencies with it in the past in his own
> projects), rather than something like homebrew, which handles
> dependencies much better.
> 
> 
> My question:  Has there been much thought/discussion into this?   Is
> it an issue of needing motivated individuals to implement the switch,
> or is there a reason why jhbuild is better for the task?
> 

What's "onerous" about jhbuild's handling of dependencies? How exactly is Homebrew
better, especially considering that everything is already set up with jhbuild? 
What problems are you having?

Regards,
John Ralls




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