[PD] PD and MacIntel

[james tittle]

On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Steffen wrote:
>
> As i'm in the process of useing Fink to install the needed deps to  
> build Pd-extended i noticed a few things i'd like to ask about.
>
> The fist is related to the Tcl/Tk "issue". Useing Fink it happens  
> that Tcl/Tk [1] is a dependency for the fftw3 packages. Using the  
> unstable tree, gives a Tcl/Tk of version 8.4.13. Now, will then  
> that version of Tcl/Tk be used instead of the version supplied by  
> Apple.

...this won't conflict with the apple/aqua tcl/tk:  the fink one is  
different (ie. works thru x11)...fink does use tcl to do some of it's  
package handling...

> Another dependency is the packaged called odcctools [2]. I don't  
> understand why. I know the info page say it is to "support gcc4",  
> but then why does it/Fink also install (yet another version of)  
> GCC? I don't understand it especially since there is already a  
> version of GCC installed with the XCode Tool, which was used to re- 
> build Fink.

...XCode by default only installs one gcc version, but it's useful to  
have multiple versions around, especially when trying to compile  
software that may require a specific compiler version to compile...ya  
might want to read up on fink:  it installs many things which you may  
not directly need, but that the package maintainer needs to provide  
the programs you do want...it all goes into /sw anyway, so if you  
decide you don't like it, just delete...

james