[Gnumed-devel] Update on status of Mac OS 10.6 (darwin 10) Snow Leopard

[Jim Busser]

Changes made in Apple's Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) included native compilation in 
64-bit. This has complicated MacPorts on account of a combination of some ports 
(analogous to Debian packages) being unable to build "universal" 
(multi-architecturally e.g. 64-bit and 32-bit e.g. postgresql84) and one of the 
python packages is unable yet to build in 64-bit hence depends on 32-bit.

MacPorts offers a work-around in the ability to override the default Mac OS 
(Snow Leopard) behaviour and build instead just in 32-bit. There is a bug in 
doing so that bites on of the dependencies maybe solvable in a build from 
source of MacPorts 1.8.3 which I can maybe try in about ~ 1 month.

In the meantime it should still be possible to run GNUmed on MacPorts on 
Leopard (OS 10.5).

-- Jim