Argus and clients on Mac OS X Lion

[David Edelman]

I was not happy with creating a parallel universe of MacPort components on
my OS X Lion system. There is actually a simple command that removes the
material that is installed using MacPorts and provides you with the
opportunity to do it the hard way.,

I was able to download, build and install ncurses from the GNU
distributions. I was much less successful with readline and after several
false starts Google led me to this which does work (YMMV)


curl ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.0.tar.gz | tar xfz -
cd readline-5.0
./configure
cd shlib
sed -e 's/-dynamic/-dynamiclib/' Makefile > Makefile.good
mv Makefile.good Makefile
cd ..
make && sudo make install
sudo rm /usr/lib/libreadline*
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libreadline* /usr/lib/



I rebuild the argus-clients from scratch starting with make clean;
./configure; make; and make install. I am happy to say that it is all
working well including ratop. The true measure of success is that CPAN has
command history recall and there is a shot that Ruby will also play
nicely. The next windmill in like is GTK and all of its bits and pieces so
that I can get keepnote to work.

--Dave


On 12/22/11 4:24 AM, "David Edelman" <dedelman at iname.com> wrote:

>On my version of Lion: Darwin XXXX-MacBook-Pro.local 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel
>Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug  9 20:54:00 PDT 2011;
>root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>
>It took a few minutes to figure it out but I just needed to create an
>empty /opt/local and then
>create a soft link ln -s /usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib. This made the
>builds work
>
>I also copied bin/argus to someplace in the path
>
>everything seems to work (at least to the extent that I have been able to
>test it.
>
>