2001/05/11 A New HEP-on-X Page

The HEP-on-X page, which is intended to show how to set up a minimum environment for High Energy Physics computing on MacOS X, was originally written in the beta test period of MacOS X. Some of the descriptions became more or less obsolete. I have thus created a new HEP on X page for MacOS X Release 10.0.X.
By the way, before I moved to MacOS X Release, I had ported the rpm (RedHat Package Manager), which greatly simplified the environment setup procedure. This has, however, the side effect that the new page lacks details of application building processes. In order to compensate this, I will keep the old page. Notice that the old page is provided as it is and will not be updated any more.

As for the RPMs I have built for MacOS X Release, the following directories might be useful:

SPECS

SOURCES

SRPMS

RPMS

where you can find spec files, my private patches, source RPMs, and binary RPMs, respectively. Note that the RPMS directory contains two subdirectories, "ppc" for architecture-dependent binariy packages, while "noarch" for those architecture-independent. For those packages without real source RPMs or those provided only as tar balls, you can find the corresponding original source packages and my private patches in src. The binary tar balls are in tgz.

These packages have been tested on my machines (G3 Series PowerBook, aka Wallstreet and Ti PowerBook G4) but might not work on your platform. Install them thus at your own risk.

Notice also that new packages are under ~fujiik/macosx/10.0.X/, while the old ones built on Public Beta are directly under ~fujiik/macosx/ and will not be supported.

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