Re: [Groff] groff on Intel platform

[Miklos Somogyi]

On 15/01/2010, at 09:21 PM, joerg van den hoff wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:48:48 +0100, Miklos Somogyi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 14/01/2010, at 08:31 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Miklos,
>>> 
>>> Am 14.01.2010 um 07:57 schrieb Miklos Somogyi:
>>> 
>>>> My questions are: 1) Is there an intel version of groff at all?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Groff has been with OS X at least since I use it (10.2) and it's still with 
>>> 10.6, 1.19.2.
>>> 
>> 
>> Good to hear that if I go the distance, I will not be disappointed with PPC 
>> versions.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 2) Anyone who went through of getting unix stuff and X under Snow any 
>>>> advice please?
> 
> as already noted by patrik schindler, groff should be there (in /usr/bin) 
> anyway
> in a fresh 10.6 install. what makes you believe it's not there?
> 

I did a few "file" there and all of them were ppc, so next I did "file * | grep 
-L" and it showed nothing.
Now that you mentinoned groff as not ppc, I found that I used the wrong option, 
"-L" instead of "-v".
That showed up a lot of non-ppc program. I've found groff but unfortunately gs 
was not there.
I hope that unlike its ppc cousin eqn will work here.

> one remote possibility: if you came from 10.4 to 10.6: I believe upt to and 
> including 10.4
> `tcsh' was the default shell in the macos `Terminal'. nowadays its `bash'. if 
> you've had configured
> your `tcsh' path to find your own `groff' executable (whereever that is on 
> your machine) it might be
> that this location no longer is on the `bash' search path.
> 
> concerning migration from ppc to intel: there's a compatibility mode allowing 
> to use
> your ppc binaries with the intel machine but it's better to 
> recompile/re-install native binaries
> (which execute faster significantly).
> 
> concerning 'unix stuff': I'm usually (not always) quite content using the 
> Macports package management
> system (e.g. for installing `gs' and `gv', as you mentioned them.)
> 

I havent heard of Macports, I'l google for it 'cause I need gs badly.

> concerning X: as used to be the case in the past, it's on the macos install 
> DVD under 'additional software' (or
> a similar title). I believe it's still not installed by default.
> 
> joerg
> 
> 

I haven't used the install DVD, Migration Assistant did the job on ethernet. I 
downloaded  Xcode32 developer
stuff from Apple, but I haven't looked at it yet. I am a bit confused when 
people talk about X, do they mean 
Xcode or something much less.

I also downloaded gfortran but it complain about the lack of "as", perhaps an 
assembler?
Well, tonight I try to put my groff house in order.

Thank you for your post,

Miklos
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What exactly do you need/miss? There's groff, there's GNU textutils and 
>>> there's vim. What else do you need? :-)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> e.g. g77, gs, gv, and some supporting X needed too.
>> 
>>> :wq! PoC
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