Re: [RFC] Distro script for Mac OS X

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:00 am, Per Persson wrote:
> Hi,
> I've cleaned up my distro script for Mac OS X and would like to add it 
> and it's supporting files to CVS.
> 
> I suppose the top dir rather than src/ is the appropriate location for 
> a directory with the files?
> Any objections to naming that dir "MacOSXDistro"?

I'm not objecting, at least not yet, but I'm curious exactly what files
these are.  I managed to install gnuplot on OSX directly from the existing
tree, and I am a total novice user to OSX.  What is needed beyond
what is there already?

> It relies on a GPL'd utility to pack stuff up. AINAL, but that should 
> not AFAICT cause any license violations. Comments?

The existing build chain uses many GPL utitilities (gmake, autoconf, etc).
 
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