Mac OS X

[Gordon Worley]

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At 4:54 PM -0600 7/31/01, Nathan Heagy wrote:
>Seems there are a lot of patches that would make gpg compile
>out-of-the-box on Mac OS X. Also seems that there is no reason for the
>resistance to putting this patches in the distribution.
>
>I can't see how the stupid work arounds needed for Mac OS X are any worse
>than the stupid work arounds needed for other OSes. It's purely childish
>not to have this program compiling on Mac OS X.

Okay, before Werner wakes up to find this issue coming back up, I'll 
attack it.  The problems with Darwin (we should talk in terms of 
Darwin, not OS X, because OS X is Darwin++, but GnuPG only cares 
about the Darwin parts, which are the same in OS X as in straight 
Darwin) have nothing to do with GnuPG in particular.  It is only that 
GnuPG is one of the programs whose configure scripts won't work with 
zsh.  Many work just find on Darwin, but there are a few that need 
tweaking.  Now, if there are legitimate problems with GnuPG on Darwin 
(like function x returning a value of type double rather than float 
or something like that which might cause problems) that would be 
something to warrant a change in GnuPG, just as it would with any 
other Unix.  Werner was very clear about this before:  GnuPG is only 
responsible for problems with itself, not problems with the build 
system.
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