HEP on X

HEP on X

Now 10.2 page is availabe. 10.2 users should go there.

This page contains installation records of software packages for High Energy Physics (HEP) computing on MacOS X 10.1. The software packages I installed into my MacOS X box are available as either RPMs or Tar Balls. Note that the ppc subdirectory contains architecture-dependent binaries while the noarch subdirectory contains architecture-independent ones. If you want to build them for yourself, you can get original source files and my private patches as SRPMs or from Ported Source Packages for MacOS X directory which is the place where you want to look into,when a SRPM only contaiins a SPEC file describing file contents. MacOS X specifiic patches are in SOURCES and SPEC files are in SPECS.

For setting up the RPM (Redhat Package Manager) on your platform, first read this.
These packages have been tested on my machine (G3 PowerBook: WallStreet and Ti PowerBook G4) but may not work on your platform. Install them thus at your own risk. For more information, follow the links below.
Some Tips Before We Begin
It is a good idea to use gnutar instead of the system's default tar in most cases. In my case tar is aliased to /usr/bin/gnutar: the default tar overwrites directories by default and may screw up symbolic links or directories permissions.
HFS+ is a case-insensitive file system, so readme and README are the same. Be careful not to overwrite existing files: I had a bad experience.
MacOS X Release 10.0.X binaries should work as they are, though I have rebuilt most packages on 10.1 in order to benefit from two-level namespace features in future. If you have already installed 10.0.X binaries, you do not have to update them except for g77 which has been updated to be compatible with the compiler suite that come with MacOS X Release 10.1 Developer Tools.